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J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon are two of the most imaginative and accomplished men in Hollywood. As writers, directors, producers, and series creators, their credits have straddled the mediums of television and film and range across several genres, from science fiction and horror to action and drama. In addition to spearheading original projects like Lost and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each has also made his mark on some of the most successful franchises in popular culture - from Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and Star Wars (Abrams) to Alien and the Avengers (Whedon) . Their output - both oddly similar and yet also wildly different - stand at the heart of twenty-first century film and television.In J.J. Abrams vs. Joss Whedon, Wendy Sterba compares the parallel careers in film and television of these creative masterminds - pitting one against the other in a light-hearted competition.
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Wendy Sterba is a Professor of Film and German language and culture at College of St. Benedict/St John's University in Minnesota. She is the author of Reel Photos: Balancing Art and Truth in Contemporary Film (Rowman and Littlefield, Spring 2015) and J.J. vs Joss (Rowman and Littlefield, Fall 2015) as well as numerous articles on photgraphic images infilm, Joss Whedon and the apocalypse. She focuses her research on the intersection of film theory, gender and aesthetics and what film (as a social artifact) tells us about the world we live in, striving at the same time to make film and the use of theory accessible to the regular person. As a child of the sixties, she studies dystopian films in the hopes that she can thereby promote truth, justice and world peace, but she now believes it's okay to trust people over thirty.
