Teen television : essays on programming and fandom /
"This essay collection explores "teen TV" in the U.S., describing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives. It views teen TV through an industrial perspective, focuses on popular programs from a cultural context, and explores the c...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- TV teen club : teen TV as safe harbor / Jeff Martin
- Teen television and the WB television network / Valerie Wee
- Defining teen culture : the N network / Sharon Marie Ross
- Rocking prime time : gender, the WB, and teen culture / Ben Aslinger
- "Normal is the watchword" : exiling cultural anxieties and redefining desire from the margins / Caralyn Bolte
- Riding the third wave : the multiple feminisms of Gilmore girls / Francesca Gamber
- "That girl of yours-she's pretty hardboiled, huh?" : detecting feminism in Veronica Mars / Andrea Braithwaite
- The portrait of an artist as a young fan : consumption and queer inspiration in Six feet under / Barbara Brickman
- "They stole me" : the O.C., masculinity, and the strategies of teen TV / Sue Turnbull
- Fashion sleuths and aerie girls : Veronica Mars' fan forums and network strategies of fan address / Jennifer Gillan
- The adventures of a repressed farm boy and the billionaire who loves him : queer spectatorship in Smallville fandom / Melanie E.S. Kohnen
- Pushing at the margins : teenage angst in teen TV and audience response / Louisa Ellen Stein.