Dear Angela Remembering My So-Called Life

by Byers, Michele; Lavery, David; Byers, Michele; Murray, Susan; Coomes, Andrew; Maloy, Kelli; Battis, Jes; Birns, Nicholas; Braun, Jolie; Price, Deidre Dowling; Brooks, Chris; Bell, Barbara; Kte'pi, Bill; Murphy, Caryn; Diffrient, David; Lavery, David

• ISBN13: 9780739116913
• ISBN10: 0739116916
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-20
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Dear Angela includes fourteen critical essays that examine the brief-lived but landmark television series, My So-Called Life (1994-1995). Tackling a broad range of topics - from identity politics, to music, to infidelity, and death - each essay builds upon a belief that My So-Called Life is a particularly rich text worth studying for the clues it offers about a particular moment in cultural and television history.

Table of Contents

Gender/sexuality/desire : subversion of difference and construction of loss in the adolescent drama of My so-called life	p. 13
Saving our so-called lives : girl fandom, adolescent subjectivity, and My so-called life	p. 35
Timing is everything : the success of Dawson's Creek and the failure of My so-called life	p. 51
Their so-called scene : uses of popular music in My so-called life	p. 57
My so-called queer : Rickie Vasquez and the performance of teen exile	p. 71
Jordan Catalano/Brian Krakow : masculinity, the "alternative" 90s, and My so-called life	p. 91
Passing notes and passing crushes : writing desire and sexuality in My so-called life	p. 107
"Whatever happens happens" : infidelity in My so-called life	p. 121
My so-called magical life : magical realism joins the chase(s)	p. 131
Holden Caulfield in Doc Martens : The catcher in the rye and My so-called life	p. 143
One of those fights where it feels like the fight's having you : the "patty reading" of My so-called life	p. 157
"It only got teenage girls" : narrative strategies and the teenage perspective of My so-called life	p. 165
My so-called life in the balance : metaphors of mortality and uncertainty in a short-lived television series	p. 181
Afterword : My so-called life meets The X-files : Winnie Holzman's influence on Joss Whedon	p. 211
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