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The Books of David Lavery
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David Lavery Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1992
Introduction: To Hear Us Talk Probe: The Real Two Cultures 1. Due Back on Planet Earth Probe: Gnosticism and the Cult Film 2. Departure of the Body Snatchers Probe: Nemesis and NASA 3. Infinite Presumption Probe: The Anti-Gnosticism of E. M. Cioran Probe: "Body's Earth": H. E. Francis' "Ballad of the Engineer Carl Feldmann" 4. The Simulator Probe: Space Boosters 5. The Abandoned Earth Probe: The Revolution of the Earth Conclusion: Dreaming Nothing |
Edited By David Lavery
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994
Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: "The Semiotics of Cobbler: Twin Peaks' Interpretive Community | David Lavery Bad Ideas: The Art and Politics of Twin Peaks | Jonathan Rosenbaum The Peaks and Valleys of Serial Creativity: What Happened to/on Twin Peaks | Marc Dolan "Do You Enjoy Making the Rest of Us Feel Stupid?" alt.tv.twinpeaks, the Trickster Author, and Viewer Mastery | Henry Jenkins Family Romance, Family Violence, and the Fantastic in Twin Peaks | Diane Stevenson "Disturbing the Guests with This Racket": Music and Twin Peaks | Kathryn Kalinak The Canonization of Laura Palmer | Christy Desmet Lynching Women: A Feminist Reading of Twin Peaks | Diana Hume George Double Talk in Twin Peaks | Alice Kuzniar Infinite Games: the Derationalization of Detection in Twin Peaks | Angela Hague Desire Under the Douglas Firs: Entering the Body of Reality in Twin Peaks | Martha Nochimson The Dis-order of Things in Twin Peaks | J. P. Telotte Postmodernism and Television: Speaking of Twin Peaks | Jimmie L. Reeves, et al Appendix A: Directors and Writers Appendix B: Cast List Appendix C: Abbreviations Appendix D: A Twin Peaks Calendar Appendix E: Twin Peaks Scene Breakdown Bibliography |
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Edited by David Lavery, Angela Hague, Marla Cartwright
Syracuse U P, 1996
David Lavery, Angela Hague, Marla Cartwright, Introduction. Generation X: The X-Files and the Cultural Moment Jimmie L. Reeves (Texas Tech University), Mark C. Rodgers, and Michael Epstein, University of Michigan), Re-Writing Popularity: The Cult Files Susan J. Clerc (Bowling Green State University), DDEB, GATB, MPPB, and Ratboy: The X-Files’ Media Fandom, Online and Off Allison Graham (University of Memphis), “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?”: Conspiracy Theory and The X-Files Michele Malach (Fort Lewis College), “I Want to Believe” in the FBI: The X-Files as an FBI Drama Leslie Jones, “Last Week We Had an Omen”: The Mythological X-Files Rhonda Wilcox (Gordon College) and J. P. Williams (Georgia Southern), “What to You Think?” The X-Files, Liminality, and Gender Pleasure Lisa Parks (University of Wisconsin), Special Agent or Monstrosity?: Finding the Feminine in The X-Files Alec McHoul (Murdoch University, Australia), How to Talk the Unknown into Existence: An Exercise in X-Filology Linda Badley (Middle Tennessee State University), The Rebirth of the Clinic: The Body as Alien in The X-Files Elizabeth B. Kubek (Syracuse University), “You Only Expose Your Father”: The Imaginary, Voyeurism, and the Symbolic Order in The X-Files Episode Summary Works Cited Index |
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Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox & David Lavery, with a foreword by Camille Bacon-Smith
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002
Introduction | Rhonda V. Wilcox and David Lavery
Part I. Forces of Society and Culture: Gender, Generations, Violence, Class, Race, and Religion Chapter 1. “Who Died and Made Her the Boss?” Patterns of Mortality in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Rhonda Wilcox Chapter 2. "My Emotions Give me Power": The Containment of Girls' Anger on Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Elyce Helford Chapter 3. "I'm Buffy and You're . . . History”: The Postmodern Politics of Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Patricia Pender Chapter 4. Surpassing the Love of Vampires: Or Why (and How) We are Denied a Queer Reading of Buffy/Willow | Farah Mendlesohn Chapter 5. Choosing Your Own Mother: Witchcraft and Female Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | J. P. Williams Chapter 6. Staking in Tongues: Speech-Act as Weapon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Karen Eileen Overbey and Lahney Preston-Matto Chapter 7. Slaying in Black and White: Kendra as Tragic Mulatto in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Lynne Edwards Chapter 8. The Un-Demonization of Supporting Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Mary Alice Money Chapter 9. Imported Mythologies: American Christianity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Greg Erickson Chapter 10. Darkness Falls on the Endless Summer: Buffy as Gidget for the Fin de Siecle | Catherine Siemann Part II: Forces of Art and Imagination (Past): Vampires, Magic, Monsters Chapter 11. Of Creatures and Creators: Buffy Does Frankenstein | Anita Rose Chapter 12. Sex and the Single Vampire: The Evolution of the Vampire Lothario and Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse Chapter 13. Digging the Undead: Death and Desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Elizabeth Krimmer and Shilpa Raval Chapter 14. Spirit Guides and Shadow Selves: From the Dream Life of Buffy (and Faith) | Donald Keller Chapter 15. Hubble-Bubble, Herbs and Grimoires: Practical Magic and Witchcraft in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Tanya Krzywinska Chapter 16. Whose Side Are You On, Anyway? Children, Adults, and the Use of Fairy Tales in Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Sarah E. Skwire Part III. Forces of Arts and Imagination (Present): Fan Relationships, Metaphoric and Real Chapter 17. Crossing the Final Taboo: Family, Sexuality, and Incest in the Buffyverse | Kristina Busse Chapter 18. “This is Oz. He’s in a Band”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Rhetoric of Music | S. Renee Dechert Chapter 19. Buffy’s Mary Sue is Jonathan: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Acknowledges the Fans | Justine Larbalestier Chapter 20. WWW.Buffy.Com : Cliques, Boundaries, and Hierarchies in an Internet Community | Amanda Zweerink and Sarah N. Gatson
End Materials Afterword: The Genius of Joss Whedon | David Lavery Episode Guide Bibliography Index |
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Edited by Angela Hague and David Lavery
London: Wallflower Books, 2002 Introduction David Lavery, Prehistory Angela Hague, History Angela Hague, Review of Boys Will Be Boys: Critical Approaches to Simon and Simon The SitCom Rhonda V. Wilcox, Review of Visual Pleasure and Nasal Elevation: A Television Teleology by Taryn P. Cursive-Waters Bill Freind, Review of From Gidget to the End of History: Sally Field and the American Century by James Detourne Dennis Hall, Review of Equinicity: Contending Discourses in Mister Ed by Jerome Stern Robert Holtzclaw, Review of Cultural Displacement and the Hegemony of Wealth in The Beverly Hillbillies by Justin Addison Drama Clifford Mapes, Review of “This is the City-State”: The Idea of the Guardian in the TV LAPD by Xerxes Havelock David Lavery, Review of Californication and Cultural Imperialism: Baywatch and the Creation of World Culture edited by Andrew Anglophone Children’s TV On Mister Rogers: Kevin Kehrwald, Review of Don’t You Be My Neighbor: Dystopian Visions in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by Victoria Neamo Jeremy Brown, Won’t You be My Rhizome?: A Review of The Piano and the Trolley: The Rhizomatic Mister Rogers by Shelia Rosenberg Krystal Whitecastle, “Tinky Winky’s got a brand new bag”: The Year's Work in Teletubbies Studies Cartoons Michael Dunne, Review of Beavis, Butt-head, and Bakhtin by I. B. Todorov Stephen Tompkins, Review of They Deconstructed South Park, You Bastards! edited by Lavender Levine Science Fiction Paul Malone, Review of Zipping the Great Minds: Max Headroom’s BigTime Philosophy edited by Martyn Dumfries Soap Opera Mark J. Charney, Review of The Semiotics of Days of Our Lives: The Possession of Marlena Evans as a Pedagogical Means of Interpretation by Kristen Susan Wortham-Quinn Brenda R. Weber, Review of Daytime Dialogism: Erica’s Eroica in the Pine Valley Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton “Smith,” and Acronym for Alterity: AMC and the Subaltern by D. Raymond Gardner Richard Henry, The Case of “Donna Quixotic: The Mirror of Uldolpho” (Episode 18) Reality TV and Sports Eugene Halton, No Man is an Island: It Takes a Village Idiot: A Review of On Temptation Island: The View from the Hot Tub by Art Dimsdale Charles A. Goldthwaite, Jr., Review of Foreign Objects in the Ring: Professional Wrestling and the Politics of Engagement by Lugnut Jones Allison Graham, Review of Subverting Desires: Spectacles of the Simpson Year edited by André Dross Greg A. Waller, Review of Tropes of Turbulence by R. Pupkin-Bickle and Mapping Meteorology, Signifying Storms, Deploying Doppler by Georgina Wynette and Tom E. Jones Gender Will Brooker, Review of Straight Reading, Resistance, Reappropriation, and Heterosexuality by Richard Bradshaw Ken Gillam and Shannon Wooden, Review of A Creature Feminine: The Politics of T & A in Primetime Television 1970-2000 edited by Patricia Frangois Jim Riser, Review of Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans / Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock: Homoeroticism as Subtext in the Post-Atomic Age by Herman Heman Theory Matthew Hills, The Perils of Post-Theory TV: Substituting Fandom for Academia, a Review-Essay of TV Guides: Towards Embedded Theory by Iain John Austen and Autarchic Tele-visions by Sarah-Jane Smythe Ben Picken-Schnozzel, Postnasal Drip: Post-rational Authority and Post-tenure Guilt Marc Dolan, The Neverending Series: The Indiana Jones Chronicles and the Past/Present/Future of Mass Media Narrative. A Review-Essay of The Adventure of a Lifetime: Critical Windows on The Indiana Jones Chronicles edited by Dale V. Vidray; Dr. Jones and Mr. Indy: A Virtual Psychobiography by Vivian Darkbloom; Myth, Media, and Mirrors: A Intermedial Commentary on Indiana Jones by Christopher J. Duffy Afterword by Robert J. Thompson |
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Edited by David Lavery
New York: Columbia U P, 2002
Introductory David Lavery, MTSU: Coming Heavy: The Significance of The Sopranos Ellen Willis, NYU: Our Mobsters, Ourselves Albert Auster, Fordham University: The Sopranos: The Gangster Redux Men and Women Cindy Donatelli and Sharon Alward, University of Manitoba: “I dread you”: Married to the Mob in The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos Avi Santo, University of Texas: “Why Don’t you take a look in the mirror, you insensitive prick”: Weight, Body Image and Masculinity in The Sopranos Joanne Lacey, University of Brighton: One for the Boys? The Sopranosand Its Male, British Audience Joseph S. Walker, Auburn University: “Cunnilingus and Psychoanalysis Have Brought Us To This”: Livia and the Logic of False Hoods The Media Context David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, and Robert J. Thompson, Syracuse University, David Chase, The Sopranos, and Television Creativity Glen Creeber, Cardiff University: “TV Ruined the Movies'’ Television, Tarantino, and The Intimate World of The Sopranos' Dawn Elizabeth B. Johnston, University of Calgary: Way North of New Jersey: A Canadian Experience of The Sopranos Paul Levinson, Fordham University: Naked Bodies, Three Showings a Week, and No Commercials: The Sopranosas a Nuts-and-Bolts Triumph of Non-Network TV Mark C. Rogers, Walsh University, Michael Epstein, Southwestern School of Law, and Jimmie Reeves, Texas Tech University: The Sopranos as HBO Brand Equity: The Art of Commerce in the Age of Digital Reproduction Genre, Narrative Technique, and Intertextuality David Pattie, University College, Chester: Mobbed Up: The Sopranos and the Intertextual Gangster Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, University of North London: Beyond the Bada Bing!: Negotiating Female Narrative Authority in The Sopranos Kevin Fellezs, University of California Santa Cruz: Wiseguy Opera: Music for Sopranos Cultural Contexts Lance Strate, Fordham University: No(rth Jersey) Sense of Place: The Cultural Geography (and Media Ecology) of The Sopranos Douglas L. Howard, SUNY at Suffolk: "Soprano-speak": Language and Silence in The Sopranos Steven Hayward, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Biro, University of Toronto: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Tony Soprano Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University: "The Brutality of Meat" and "the Abruptness of Seafood": Food, Violence, and Family in The Sopranos Appendix A. The Sopranos Episodes Appendix B. The Sopranos Cast of Characters Appendix C. Intertextual Moments and Allusions on The Sopranos Appendix D. The Sopranos: A Family History Bibliography Index |
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Edited by David Lavery, with Sara Lewis Dunne
New York: Continuum, 2006
David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Preface. “Part of Popular Culture”: The Legacy of Seinfeld “Giddy-Up!”: Introductions Albert Auster (Fordham University), Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld David Marc (Syracuse University), Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing Bill Wyman, Seinfeld Reflections on Seinfeld “Maybe the dingoes ate your baby”: Genre, Humor, Intertextuality Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld, Situation Comedy, and the Encounter with Nothingness Dennis Hall (University of Louisville), Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld Amy McWilliams (Texas A & M), Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld “If I like their race, how can that be racist?”: Gender, Generations, and Ethnicity Joanna L. Di Mattia (Monash University), Male Anxiety and the Buddy System in Seinfeld Matthew Bond, “Are they having babies just so people will visit them?”: Parents and Children on Seinfeld Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology), Seinfeldis a Jewish Sitcom, Isn’t It: Ethnicity and Assimilation on 1990s American Television “It is so sad, all your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons”: Cultural, Pop Cultural, and Media Matters Geoffrey O’Brien, The Republic of Seinfeld Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld Eleanor Hersey (Fresno Pacific University), "It’ll Always Be Burma to Me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld Elke van Cassel (Radboud University Nijmegen), Getting the Joke: Seinfeldfrom a European Perspective Michael M. Epstein (Southwestern University School of Law), Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University), and Jimmie L. Reeves (Texas Tech University), From Must-See-TV to Branded Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication Afterword David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, with Marc Leverette, Colorado State University, Re-Reading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm “Get Out!”: Back Pages Betty Lee, Seinfeld Lexicon Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide (by David Lavery) Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions Contributors Bibliography Index |
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Edited by David Lavery
London: Tauris, 2006 Introductory David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University, USA), Introduction: Can This be the End of Tony Soprano? Michael M. Epstein (Southwestern University School of Law, USA), Jimmie L. Reeves (Texas Tech, USA), and Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University, USA), Surviving the "Hit": Will The Sopranos Still Sing for HBO? David Johansson (Brevard Community College, USA), Homeward Bound: Those Sopranos Titles Come Heavy Sopranos Women Janet McCabe and Kim Akass (Manchester Metropolitan University and University of North London, UK), What has Carmela Ever Done for Feminism? Valerie Palmer-Mehta (Oakland University, USA), Disciplining the Masculine: The Disruptive Power of Janice Soprano Bruce Plourde (Temple University, USA), Eve of Destruction: Dr. Melfi as Reader of The Sopranos Episodes Jessica Baldanzi (Indiana University, USA), Bloodlust for the Common Man: The Sopranos Confronts Its Vengeful Audience [on "Employee of the Month" and "Another Toothpick"] Cameron Golden (UNC Greensboro, USA), "You're Annette Bening?": Dreams and Hollywood as Subtext in The Sopranos [on "The Test Dream"] Christopher Kocela (Georgia State University, USA), From Columbus to Gary Cooper: Mourning the Lost White Father in The Sopranos [on "Christopher"] Music, Theatricality, Aesthetics Chris Neal (McMurry University, USA), Gangstas, Divas, and Breaking Tony’s Balls: Musical Reference in The Sopranos Gwyn Symonds (University of Sydney, Australia), Show Business or Dirty Business?: The Theatrics of Mafia Narrative and Empathy for the Last Mob Boss Standing in The Sopranos Franco Ricci (University of Ottawa, Canada), Art Imitating Life Imitating Art: Aesthetics and Ammunition in The Sopranos Criminal Justice, Politics, Race Douglas L. Howard (Suffolk County Community College, USA), Tasting Brylcreem: Law, Disorder, and the FBI in The Sopranos Dean DeFino (Iona College, USA), The Prince of North Jersey Brian Gibson (University of Alberta, Canada), "Black Guys My Ass": The Queerness of Racism in The Sopranos Back Pages Appendix A: Episode/Writer/Director Guide Appendix B: Intertextual Moments and Allusions in The Sopranos (Seasons Four and Five) Appendix C: Characters Bibliography Index |
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Edited by David Lavery London: Tauris, 2006
David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University, USA). Introduction. Deadwood, David Milch, and Television Creativity Characters
Shawn McIntosh (Rutgers U, USA). Six Shooters and the Fourth Estate: A.W. Merrick and Deadwood's Information Society Douglas Howard (SUNY Suffolk, USA). Why Wild Bill Hickok Had to Die The Women of Deadwood Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan U, UK). Myth Maketh the Woman: Calamity Jane and the Myth of the West Kathleen E. R. Smith (Northwestern State U of Louisiana, USA). Whores, Ladies, and Calamity Jane: Western Gender Roles and the Women of HBO’s Deadwood Deadwood and Genre Amanda Klein (U Pittsburgh, USA). “The Horse Doesn’t Get a Credit”: The Foregrounding of Generic Syntax in Deadwood’s Opening Credits Joseph Millichap (Western Kentucky U, USA). David Milch, Robert Penn Warren, and the Literary Contexts of Deadwood Sean O’Sullivan (Clemson U, USA). Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: Deadwood and Serial Fiction Politics, Language, Race David Drysdale (U Northern British Columbia, CAN). “Laws and Every other Damn Thing”: Authority, Bad Faith, and the Unlikely Success of Deadwood John Bridge (UCLA, USA). Deadwood’s Language Project: Profanity, Mythology, and “Quality" Paul Wright & Hai Lin Zhou (Villanova U, USA). Divining the “Celestials”: The Chinese Subculture of Deadwood The Body in Deadwood G. Christopher Williams (U Wisconsin Stevens Point, USA). Pimp and Whore: The Necessity of Perverse Domestication in the Development of the Western Erin Hill (UCLA, USA). Body Crises in Deadwood David Scott Diffrient (University of Michigan, USA). Deadwood Dick: The Western (Phallus) Reinvented Appendix B: Deadwood Cast List Notes Bibliography Index
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2nd edition
Lynnette Porter David Lavery
Acknowledgments Introduction: Getting Lost Part One: Creating Lost Chapter 1: The Making of Lost Part Two: The Many Meanings of Lost Chapter 2: Lost Within and Without Chapter 3: Finding Lost Meanings Part Three: Spirituality Chapter 4: Spiritual Practices on the Island Chapter 5: Formal Religion as a Way to Unlock Meaning Chapter 6: Larger Spiritual Concepts Part Four: The Lost Fandom Chapter 7: Cult(ivating) a Lost Audience: The Participatory Fan Culture of Lost Character Sketches Character Connections Similar Names Epilogue: Lost in the Future Appendix A: Episode Guide Appendix B: Awards and Nominations Backmatter Lost Bibliography Works Cited Notes Index |
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Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson ECW Press 2007
Introduction
Part I: Going Deep
Television Are These Heroes Lost? The Creation of Heroes Empowering Heroes: Marketing the Series Comics Comic Book Heroes (with Sean Hockett) Growing Pains: Heroes and the Quest for Identity (by Ben Strickland) Heroes and Villains The Making of a Hiro The Ambiquity of Evil in Heroes Light and Dark Going Dark in Heroes (by Steven Peacock) The Heroes Kaleidoscope (by Mary Alice Money) The Finale Finale Face-Off
Part 2: Enhancements
Heroes Season 1 Episode Guide Episode Title Locator The Powers of Heroes Body Count: Unnatural Deaths in Heroes Appearances of the Helix Heroes Music Heroes Graphic Novels Heroes Around the Web
Notes Bibliography Index |
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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 Unviersity): "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
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Lynnette Porter, David Lavery, Hillary Robson
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Lost Reading and Viewing Is There an (Ancestor) Text on This Island?
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