Dear Angela Remembering My So-Called Life

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.

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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Dear Angela Remembering My So-Called Life

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