
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon for The WB and later UPN, transformed the horror genre into a vehicle for feminist storytelling and adolescent metaphor — every monster a real-world fear, every season a stage of growing up. The show's all-musical episode 'Once More with Feeling' and its near-silent episode 'Hush' demonstrated a formal ambition rare in genre television, and its ensemble cast (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head) created one of television's most beloved communities. Buffy is now studied in hundreds of university courses and is credited with launching a generation of female-driven genre fiction.
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