Dear Angela: Remembering My So-called LifeMichele Byers, David Lavery Lexington Books, 2007 - 246 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. |
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Subversion of Difference and Construction of Loss in the Adolescent Drama of My SoCalled Life | 13 |
Girl Fandom Adolescent Subjectivity and My SoCalled Life | 35 |
The Success of Dawsons Creek and the Failure of My SoCalled Life | 51 |
Uses of Popular Music in My SoCalled Life | 57 |
Rickie Vasquez and the Performance of Teen Exile | 71 |
Masculinity the Alternative 90s and My SoCalled Life | 91 |
Writing Desire and Sexuality in My SoCalled Life | 107 |
Infidelity in My SoCalled Life | 121 |
The Patty Reading of My SoCalled Life | 157 |
Narrative Strategies and the Teenage Perspective of My SoCalled Life | 165 |
Metaphors of Mortality and Uncertainty in a ShortLived Television Series | 181 |
Winnie Holzmans Influence on Joss Whedon | 211 |
APPENDIX 1 CHARACTER LIST | 218 |
APPENDIX 2 EPISODE GUIDE | 219 |
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CONTRIBUTORS | 233 |
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