Dear
Angela: Remembering My So Called Life
Click on the cover to order the book from Amazon.com.
Edited by
Michele Byers and David Lavery
Lexington Books 2007
Introduction
Michele Byers
Dear
Angela: Remembering My So Called Life
Click on the cover to order the book from Amazon.com.
Edited by
Michele Byers and David Lavery
Lexington Books 2007
Introduction
Michele Byers
Overture
Chapter 1. Michele Byers (St. Mary's U): "Gender/Sexuality/Desire: Subversion of Difference and Construction of Loss in the Adolescent Drama My So Called Life." (St. Mary's U): "Gender/Sexuality/Desire: Subversion of Difference and Construction of Loss in the Adolescent Drama My So Called Life."
Chapter 2. Susan Murray (NYU): Saving Our So-Called Lives: Girl Fandom, Adolescent Subjectivity, and My So-Called Life
Media
Chapter 3. Andrew Coomes (Middle Tennessee State U): Timing is Everything: The Success of Dawson’s Creek and the Failure of My So-Called Life
Chapter 4. Kelli Maloy (U of Pittsburgh at Greensburg): Their So-Called Scene: Uses of Popular Music in My So-Called Life
Characters & Themes
Chapter 5. Jes Battis (Simon Frazier U): My So-Called Queer: Rickie Vasquez and the Performance of Teen Exile
Chapter 6. Nicholas Birns (New School): Jordan Catalano/Brian Krakow: Masculinity in the Alternative 90s
Chapter 7. Jolie Braun (U of California—Davis): Passing Notes and Passing Crushes – Writing Desire and Sexuality in My So-Called Life
Chapter 8. Deidre Dowling Price (Okaloosa-Walton College): “Whatever happens happens”: Infidelity In My So-Called Life
Literature
Chapter 9. Chris Brooks (Wichita State U): My So Called Magical Life: Magical Realism Joins the Chase(s)
Chapter 10. Barbara Bell: Holden Caulfield in Doc Martens: The Catcher in the Rye and My So-Called Life
Narrative
Chapter 11. Bill Kte’pi (Indiana U), One Of Those Fights Where It Feels Like The Fight's Having You: Subjectivity and the MSCL Narrative.
Chapter 12. Caryn Murphy (U of Wisconsin—Madison): “It Only Got Teenage Girls”: Narrative Strategies and the Realism of My So-Called Life
Coda
Chapter 13. David Diffrient (UCLA): My So-Called Life in the Balance: Metaphors of Mortality and Uncertainty in a Short-Lived Television Series
Afterword
David Lavery (Brunel University): "My So Called Life Meets The X-Files": Winnie Holzman's Influence on Joss Whedon
Appendices
Appendix 1. Character List
Appendix 2. Episode Guide
Appendix 3. Selected Bibliography