Collected Works

of David Lavery

Television

Books

Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, and Hillary Robson. Saving the World: A Guide to Heroes. Toronto: ECW Press, 2007.

Angela Hague and David Lavery, ed. Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow. London: Wallflower, 2002.

Essays/Articles/Book Chapters/Reviews

“24: Jumping the Shark Every Minute.” Flow 4.11 (September 8, 2006) http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1957.

“Afterword.” Reading 24: TV Against the Clock. Edited by Steven Peacock. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006: 209-212.

“Afterword: Rereading Seinfeld After Curb Your Enthusiasm” (with Marc Leverette). Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television’s Greatest Sitcom. New York: Continuum, 2006. 203-19.

Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. “Afterword: The Depths of Angel and the Birth of Angel Studies.” Reading Angel: The TV Spinoff with a Soul. Ed. Stacey Abbott. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005: 221-29.

“The Allusions of Television.” Flow 3.10 (January 2006) <http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1391>.

“Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Number 9 (2003). http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage9/Lavery.htm.

Ian Maull and David Lavery, “Battlestar Galactica.” The Essential Cult Television Reader. Essential Readers in Media and Culture. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2010. 44-50.

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” 50 Key Television Programmes. Ed. Glen Creeber. London: Arnold, 2004. 31-35.

"’The Catastrophe of My Personality’: Frank O’Hara, Don Draper, and the Poetics of Mad Men." Reading Mad Men. Ed. Gary Edgerton. Reading Contemporary Television Series. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.

“Climate Change: Television Books, The Series.” “Aerial View: Debating Television.” Special Issue of Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies on Small Screen Fictions 1.1 (Spring 2006): 97-103.

“Coming Heavy: Intertextuality, Genre, and The Sopranos.” PopPolitics.com (March 2001): http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2001-03-03-heavy.shtml.

“Coming Heavy: The Significance of The Sopranos.” Prologue to This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos: xi-xviii.

“The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears.” Flow 5.9 (March 9, 2007) http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=2085.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm.” The Essential HBO Reader. Edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2007: 204-13.

David Lavery and Robert J. Thompson. “David Chase, The Sopranos, and Television Creativity.” This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos 18-25.

“Deadwood, David Milch, and Television Creativity.” Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By 1-7.

“Deconstruction at Bat: Baseball vs. Critical Theory in Northern Exposure’s ’The Graduate.’” Critical Studies in Television 1.2 (Autumn 2006): 33-38. Republished in Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays. Ed. Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008: 98-104.

“Dropping the Body: The X-Files, Popular Culture, and Exosomatic Evolution.” Mythen der Kreativitaet. Das Schoepferische zwischen Innovation und Hybris. Frankfurt: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2003. 282-97.

“The Emigration of Life on Mars: Sam and Gene Do America.” Life on Mars to Ashes to Ashes. Ed. Steve Lacey and Ruth McElroy. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2010.

“’Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers’: Joss Whedon's Commentaries on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Number 6 (2002). http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage6/Lavery.htm.

“’Fatal Environment’: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Culture.” Staking a Claim: Exploring the Global Reach of Buffy, Adelaide, Australia (July 2003).

“Foreword” to Buffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television, ed. James South, Elizabeth Rambo, and Lynne Edwards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2008: 1-3.

“Generation X: The X-Files and the Cultural Moment” (with Angela Hague and Marla Cartwright). Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files. Ed. David Lavery, Angela Hague, and Marla Cartwright. The Television Series. Syracuse: Syracuse U P, 1996: 1-21.

“The Genius of Joss Whedon.” Afterword to Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002: 251-56.

“God, Death, and Pizza: Supernatural and the Death of God.” Critical Studies in Television August 2010: http://criticalstudiesintelevision.com/index.php?siid=13794.

“How Cult Television Became Mainstream.” The Essential Cult Television Reader. Essential Readers in Media and Culture. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2010. 1-6.

“’I Only Had a Week’: TV Creativity and Quality Television.” Invited Keynote Address: Contemporary American Quality Television: An International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (March 2004).

“’I wrote my thesis on you’: Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Numbers 13-14 (2004). http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage13_14/Lavery.htm.

“The Imagination will be Televised: Showrunning and the Re-animation of Authorship in 21^st American Television.” Keynote, Television Symposium (Merz Academy, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2010).

“Impossible Girl: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Television Creativity.” Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Ed. Scott Diffrient, with David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse U P, 2010: 3-18.

Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery. “Introduction.” Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002: xvii-xxix.

“Introduction: Can This Be the End of Tony Soprano?” Reading The Sopranos. Edited by David Lavery. London: I B Tauris, 2006. 3-14.

David Lavery and Jimmie Cain. “Introduction.’” “Quirky Quality TV: Revisiting Northern Exposure.” Critical Studies in Television 1.2 (Autumn 2006): 2-5.

“Introduction.” The Essential Sopranos Reader. Ed. David Lavery, Douglas Howard, and Paul Levinson. Essential Readers in Media and Culture. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2011.

Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery. “Introduction.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legittimare la Cacciatrice. Edited by Barbara Maio. Grandi Serie Televisive Americane. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2007: 27-41.

“Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show.” Flow 3.6 (November 2005) <http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1275>.

“Is There an (Ancestor) Text on This Island? Lost, Bloomian Misreading, and Television Creativity.” Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (April 2006).

“The Island’s Greatest Mystery: Is Lost Science Fiction?” The Essential Science Fiction TV Reader. Edited by J. P. Telotte. Lexington: U P of Kentucky, 2008: 283-298.

“It's Not Television, It's Magic Realism: The Mundane, the Grotesque, and the Fantastic in 6 Feet Under.” Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die For. Ed. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. 19-33.

“Johnny Carson.” American Icons: People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture. Volume 1. Edited by Dennis and Susan Hall. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006: 114-119.

Angelina Karpovich and David Lavery. Life on Mars Symposium: A Report. Critical Studies in Television 3.2 (2008).

“Lost and Long Term Television Narrative.” Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives. Ed. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009: 313-22.

“Lost in a Good Story: Serial Creativity on a Desert Island.” Flow 3.2 (September 2005) <http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=939>.

“’My So Called Life Meets The X-Files’: Winnie Holzman’s Influence on Joss Whedon.” Dear Angela: Remembering My So Called Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007: 211-216.

“My Ten Years with Twin Peaks.” Wrapped in Plastic No. 46 (April 2000): 6-7

“’Part of Popular Culture’: The Legacy of Seinfeld” (with Sara Lewis Dunne), Preface to Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain: Revisiting Television’s Greatest Sitcom. New York: Continuum, 2006. 1-9.

“Preface: Five Incredible Years.” Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies. Edited by Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007: xv-xviii.

“Prehistory.” Teleparody: Predicting / Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow. London: Wallflower, 2002: 1-4.

“Putting Television on the Map” (Review of Television: Critical Methods and Applications by Jeremy G. Butler). The Review of Communication 3.1 (2003): 83-84.

“Read Any Good Television Lately? Television Tie-In Books and Quality TV.” Contemporary American TV Drama: The Quality Debate. Edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007: 228-36.

“A Religion in Narrative: Joss Whedon and Television Creativity.” Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Number 7 (2002). http://www.slayageonline.com/essays/slayage7/Lavery.htm.

“Remote Control: Mythic Reflections.” Journal of Popular Film and Television 18 (1990): 65-71.

“Remote Control: Mythic Reflections.” The Remote Control Device in the New Age of Television. Ed. James R. Walker and Rob Bellamy. New York: Praeger, 1993: 223-34.

“Response to Jonathan Gray.” Film-Philosophy 7.18(July 2003): http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol7-2003/n18Lavery.

Review Essay of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book by Golden, Bissette, and Sniegoski, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher’s Guide, Vol. 2 by Holder, Mariotte, and Hart, and The Sopranos: A Family History by Alan Rucker. Television Quarterly 31.4 (Winter 2001): 89-92.

Review of Action TV: Tough Guys, Smooth Operator and Foxy Chicks, eds. Bill Osgerby and Anna Gough-Yates London (Routledge 2001). Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (79.2) 2003: 467-468.

Review of Californication and Cultural Imperialism: Baywatch and the Creation of World Culture, edited by Andrew Anglophone. Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow. London: Wallflower, 2002: 40-45.

Review of Inside Prime Time by Todd Gitlin and Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously by David Bianculli. Television Quarterly 32.1 (Spring 2001): 88-90.

Review of Nicholas Mirzoeff, Seinfeld (British Film Institute, 2007). Critical Studies in Television 4.2 (2009): 123-25.

Review of Barbara Villez’s Television and the Legal System. Studies in Popular Culture (2010).

Review of Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, ed. Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins. Television Quarterly 32.2-3 (Summer-Fall 2001): 99-100.

Review of The Television Genre Book, ed. by Glen Creeber. Television and New Media 4.3 (2003): 335-37.

Review of TV Creators: Conversations with America’s Top Producers of Television Drama, Volume Two, by James Longworth, Jr. Television Quarterly 33.4 (Spring 2003): 105-107.

“Rob Thomas and Television Creativity.” Investigating Veronica Mars. Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox and Sue Turnbull. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2010.

“The Semiotics of Cobbler: Twin Peaks’ Interpretive Community.” Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. Detroit: Wayne State U P, 1994: 1-23.

“Serial’ Killer: Dexter’s Narrative Strategies.” Dexter: Investigaing Cutting Edge Television. Ed. Douglas Howard. Investigating Cult Television. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009: 43-48.

“The Sopranos.” 50 Key Television Programmes. Ed. Glen Creeber. London: Arnold, 2004. 188-92.

“The Soul of Andy Sipowicz: Depth of Character and the Depth of Television.” PopPolitics.com (March 2001): http://www.poppolitics.com/articles/2001-06-11-sipowicz.shtml.

“’The Status is not quo’: Television’s Horrible Future.” Critical Studies in Television. January 2009 http://www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/index.php?siid=8872.

“Thinking Inside the Box: Heisenberg’s Indeterminancy Principle, the Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat, and Television.” TV Reflections. Critical Studies in Television (July 2010) <http://criticalstudiesintelevision.com/index.php?siid=13721>.

“(TV)antipathy: A Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Television Hating,“ Parts One and Twoe . Flow 4.2 (April 14, 2006) http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1725 and Flow 4.6 (June 16, 2006) <http://jot.communication.utexas.edu/flow/?jot=view&id=1923>.

“Twin Peaks.” 50 Key Television Programmes. Ed. Glen Creeber. London: Arnold, 2004. 222-26.

"'W' Stands for Women, or is It Wisteria?: Watching Desperate Housewives with Bush 43.” Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence. Edited by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass. London: I. B. Tauris, 2006: 21-36.

“The X-Files.” 50 Key Television Programmes. Ed. Glen Creeber. London: Arnold, 2004. 242-46.

“The X-Files.” Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Peter Knight. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2003. 743-45.