Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Overture | |
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 |
Media | |
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 |
Characters and Themes | |
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 |
Literature | |
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 |
Narrative | |
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 |
Coda | |
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 |
Appendices | |
Character List | p. 218 |
Episode Guide | p. 219 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 220 |
Contributors | p. 233 |
Index | p. 237 |
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