Joss Whedon: the biography

From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, personal tales about love, death, and redemption even against the most dramatic and larger-than-life backdrops. This biography follows his development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successeswhich often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)to his breakout turn as the creator, writer, and director of the Buffy television series. Extensive, original interviews with Whedon's family, friends, collaborators, and starsand with the man himselfoffer candid, behind-the-scenes accounts of the making of groundbreaking series such as Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse, as well as new stories about his work with Pixar writers and animators during the creation of Toy Story. Most importantly, however, these conversations present an intimate and revealing portrait of a man whose creativity and storytelling ability have manifested themselves in comics, online media, television, and film.

Front Cover ; Front Flip; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Foreword by Nathan Fillion; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Family of Storytellers ; Chapter 2: "Being British" in the Land of Shakespeare (and Giles) ; Chapter 3: Crash Course in Television ; Chapter 4: The Blonde in the Alley Fights Back ; Chapter 5: The World Upends ; Chapter 6: To Infinity and Beyond: Toy Story and Alien: Resurrection ; Chapter 7: Buffy: Resurrection ; Chapter 8: Buffy Premieres ; Chapter 9: The Bronze ; Chapter 10: The Buffy Way ; Chapter 11: Front-Page News ; Chapter 12: Growing Up: Angel.

Chapter 13: A New Challenge: Silence Chapter 14: Shakespeare Fanboy ; Chapter 15: Buffy Goes Back to High School ; Chapter 16: Once More, with Feeling ; Chapter 17: We Aim to Misbehave: Firefly ; Chapter 18: Curse your Sudden but Inevitable Cancellation ; Chapter 19: End of (Buffy's) Days ; Chapter 20: An Astonishing Return to his Roots ; Chapter 21: Not Fade Away ; Chapter 22: Grant Me the Serenity ; Chapter 23: Election 2004 ; Chapter 24: I Wrote my Thesis on You ; Chapter 25: Serenity Lands ; Chapter 26: Strong Female Characters ; Chapter 27: A New Way of Storytelling.

Chapter 28: WGA Writers' Strik…