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Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 229–244

Chapter 13
Mexican Cinema in the Buffyverse

Toward an ethics of transnational adaptation and appropriation

Article outline
  • Sustained appropriation on the analogue screen: Buffy is “Older, and Far Away”
  • Mexploitation and the Day of the Dead in the City of Angels
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 October 2018
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