Are you my mummy? Complicating the mother in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Vasnani, Bhavna Ramesh

“…The heroine of the show, the titular Buffy Summers, is the physical representation of this stereotype: blonde and petite. But Buffy is not a damsel in distress; she is the Vampire Slayer, the “one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires…to stop the spread of evil” (“Welcome to the Hellmouth”, 1:012). …”
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