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Tanya Krzywinska is a Reader in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University and an associate editor of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. Her publications include ‘Hubble-Bubble, Herbs and Grimoires: Manichaeanism, Magic and Witchcraft in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ in Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002). She has an article on one of the Buffy games for the X-Box in Slayage 8 (www.slayage.tv). She is also the author of A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film (2000), Sex and the Cinema (forthcoming), Tomb Raiders and Space Invaders: videogame forms and contexts (with Geoff King) (forthcoming) and Science Fiction Cinema: From Outerspace to Cyberspace (2000). She co-edits (with Geoff King) ScreenPlay: Cinema / Videogames / Interfaces (Wallflower Press, 2002). She is currently editing Videogame/Player/Text with Barry Atkins and writing Imaginary Worlds: A cross-media study of the aesthetic, formal and interpolative strategies of virtual worlds in popular media.
“The horror! The horror!” (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
‘Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.’ (Rilke, “The Man Watching”)
Zoe-Jane Playdon is head of Education at Kent, Surrey and Sussex Postgraduate Medicine and Dentistry Deanery at the University of London. Her particular interests are in participative management and education processes on the one hand, and feminist spirituality on the other. She is the author of ‘“The Outsiders’ Society”: Religious Imagery in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, published in Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and of ‘“What Are You, What's to Come”: Feminisms, Citizenship and the Divine’, which appears in Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critica Companion to Buffy and Angel, edited by Roz Kaveney.
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