[ecrea] CFP Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of Angel – A Slayage Special Issue

CFP: Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of /Angel/ – A/Slayage /Special Issue


On October 5^th 1999, the first episode of /Angel /– the spin-off to 
/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/ – aired on the WB.  The television show ran 
for five seasons and ended with a bang – or at least with a dragon – on 
May 19^th 2004. The story continued in comic book form, including 
/Angel: After the Fall /(IDW Publishing)/, Angel & Faith Season 9/ and 
/Angel & Faith Season 10 /(Dark Horse Comics).  While the show has 
received critical attention in the form of journal articles in /Slayage: 
The Journal of Whedon Studies, Critical Studies in Television, 
Refractory, /and /Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media/, as well as a 
small number of books/, /the series has never received the same level of 
critical attention as its parent-text /Buffy/ as well as other 
Whedon/Mutant Enemy texts. Yet its aesthetic hybridity and horror 
pedigree, as well as its preoccupation with themes of redemption, 
masculinity, corporate evil, apocalypse, and the need to keep fighting 
the good fight in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, make it 
increasingly relevant. More so than ever, Angel’s epiphany ‘If nothing 
you do matters, then all that matters is what you do’ speaks to the 
contemporary reality of our socio-political landscape.

The show’s 20^th anniversary in 2019 is an ideal opportunity to reflect 
once again upon /Angel/, not only in terms of its significance as a 
series, but also the legacy and influence of the show, in terms of 
content, theme, and personnel.  The editors of this special issue – 
Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown –  thus invite proposals for papers on any 
aspect of /Angel/ the television series and/or its comic-book spin-offs. 
As Angel tells his team as they face a horde of demons and monsters 
‘Let’s go to work’.

Proposals may include, but are not restricted to:

·        Aesthetics and production contexts
·        Discussions of direction, editing, music, set design, and sound
·        Representations of the city
·        Examinations of key themes such as: masculinity, redemption, 
apocalypse, and/or Corporate Evil
·        Issues of gender
·        Angel as apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction
·        Angel and genre (comedy, horror, Film Noir, melodrama)
·        The /Angel /finale
· /Angel/ in relation to other Whedon texts
· /Angel /in relation to other vampire TV series (/True Blood, Vampire 
Diaries, The Originals, The Strain, Penny Dreadful)/
· /Angel /and TV Horror
·        The legacy of the sympathetic/reluctant vampire
· /Angel: After the Fall, Angel & Faith/, and other comics
·        Transmediality
·        Fandom
·        Legacy of the creators of /Angel/ (e.g. Joss Whedon, David 
Greenwalt, Jim Kouf, Tim Minear, Jane Espenson, Steven DeKnight, Ben 
Edlund, Drew Goddard, Jeffrey Bell, Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain, Marita 
Grabiak)
·        Legacy of the cast

Please send a 200-300 word proposal and a short bio by the 15^th January 
2018 to Stacey Abbott ((s.abbott /at/ roehampton.ac.uk)) and Simon Brown 
((simon.brown /at/ kingston.ac.uk)). Decisions will be made, and everyone will 
be notified, by the 12^th February 2018. If your proposal is accepted 
please note that a first draft will be due by the 29^th June 2018.

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