The God Author

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Table of Contents

• About the Author
  • Who Is the Author?
• Introduction
• “The Monster at the End of This Book” (4×18)
  • 4×18: Metareference
  • 4×18: Chuck the Prophet
  • 4×18: Chuck as Kripke
• “Swan Song” (5×22)
  • 5×22: Chuck the Prophet
  • 5×22: Chuck as God?
  • 5×22: Death of the Author
  • 5×22: Authorship and Seriality
  • 4×18: Revisited
• “Don’t Call Me Shurley” (11×20)
  • 11×20: Chuck as God-Audience
  • 4×18 and 5×22: Revisited
• “Moriah” (14×20)
  • 14×20: Chuck as God-Author
• “Inherit the Earth” (15×19)
  • 15×19: God-Author the Villain
  • 15×19: Post-God-Author
  • Chuck: Revisited
• The End?
• Serial Narrative, Scholarship, and Free Will
• Wait!
• Table of Contents and Works Cited

Works Cited

Episodes

Note: Every episode of Supernatural says “created by Eric Kripke” on the IMDB page. What does that say about authorship?

• “Carry On.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 15, episode 20, Warner Bros. Television, 19 Nov. 2020.
• “Changing Channels.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 5, episode 8, Warner Bros. Television, 5 Nov. 2009.
• “Don’t Call Me Shurley.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 11, episode 20, Warner Bros. Television, 4 May 2016.
• “Fan Fiction.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 10, episode 5, Warner Bros. Television, 11 Nov. 2014.
• “Hollywood Babylon.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 2, episode 18, Warner Bros. Television, 19 Apr. 2007.
• “Inherit the Earth.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 15, episode 19, Warner Bros. Television, 12 Nov. 2020.
• “Moriah.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 14, episode 20, Warner Bros. Television, 25 Apr. 2019.
• “Swan Song.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 5, episode 22, Warner Bros. Television, 13 May 2010.
• “The French Mistake.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 6, episode 15, Warner Bros. Television, 25 Feb. 2011.
• “The Monster at the End of This Book.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 4, episode 18, Warner Bros. Television, 2 Apr. 2009.
• “The Real Ghostbusters.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 5, episode 9, Warner Bros. Television, 12 Nov. 2009.
• “Yellow Fever.” Supernatural, created by Eric Kripke, season 4, episode 6, Warner Bros. Television, 23 Oct. 2008.

Secondary Sources

• Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Image/Music/Text, Hill and Wang, 1977, pp. 142–48.
• Fathallah, Judith May. “‘I’m a God’: The Author and the Writing Fan in Supernatural.” Fanfiction and the Author, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, pp. 157–98. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1v2xsp4.9.
• Favard, Florent. “Angels, Demons and Whatever Comes Next: The Storyworld Dynamics of Supernatural.” Series – International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, vol. 4, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 19–26, https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.2421-454X/8164.
• Kelleter, Frank. “Five Ways of Looking at Popular Seriality.” Media of Serial Narrative, edited by Frank Kelleter, Ohio State University Press, 2017, pp. 7–34. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10crd8x.5.
• Wolf, Werner. “Metareference across Media: The Concept, Its Transmedial Potentials and Problems, Main Forms and Functions.” Metareference across Media: Theory and Case Studies, edited by Werner Wolf et al., Rodopi, 2009, pp. 1–85.

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