Mr. Pointy Awards / 2015
For Works Published in 2014

On behalf of the Whedon Studies Association, the Whedon Studies Award (the “Mr. Pointy”) Jury is honored to announce the winners of the 2015 awards for outstanding work in Whedon Studies. Works eligible for this year’s award were all published during 2014. These winners as well as the other finalists represent the highest level of scholarship and original contributions to the field of Whedon Studies. 

Short-Form Award
  • Woofter, Kristopher Karl. "Watchers in the Woods: Meta-Horror, Genre Hybridity, and Reality TV Critique in The Cabin in the Woods." Reading Joss Whedon. Ed. Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2014. 268-79. Print.

Long-Form Award
  • Wilcox, Rhonda V., Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery, eds. Reading Joss Whedon. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2014. Print.
Short-Form Finalists
  • Cochran, Tanya R. "By Beholding We Become Changed: Narrative Transubstantiation and the Whedonverses." Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 11.2/12.1 [38-39] (Summer 2014): n. pag. Web.
  • Giannini, Erin. "'Charybdis Tested Well with Teens': The Cabin in the Woods as Metafictional Critique of Corporate Media Producers and Audiences." 'We Are Not Who We Are': Critical Reflections on The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Ed. Kristopher Woofter and Jasie Stokes. Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10.2-11.1 [36-37] (Fall 2013/Winter 2014): n. pag. Web.
  • Mukherjea, Ananya. "Somebody's Asian on TV: Sierra/Priya and the Politics of Representation." Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Ed. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 65-80. Print.
  • Starr, Michael. “‘I’ve Watched You Build Yourself From Scratch’: The Assemblage of Echo.” Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Ed. Sherry Ginn, Alyson R. Buckman and Heather M. Porter. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 3-19. Print.

Long-Form Finalists
  • Ginn, Sherry, Alyson R. Buckman, and Heather M. Porter, eds. Joss Whedon's Dollhouse: Confounding Purpose, Confusing Identity. Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Print.
  • Pascale, Amy. Joss Whedon: The Biography. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014. Print.