Overview

During the course of its three seasons, Veronica Mars captured the attention of fans and academics alike. The 12 scholarly essays in this collection examine the show's most compelling elements. Topics covered include vintage television, the search for the mother, fatherhood, the show's connection to classical Greek paradigms, the anti-hero's journey, rape narrative and meaning, and television fandom. Collectively, these essays reveal how a teen television show--equal parts noir, romance, social realism and father-daughter drama--became a worthy subject for scholarly study.

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Author:   Rhonda V. Wilcox ,  Sue Turnbull
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780786445349

ISBN 10:   0786445343
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   22 February 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction. Canonical Veronica: Veronica Mars and Vintage Television RHONDA V. WILCOX and SUE TURNBULL      1. Rob Thomas and Television Creativity DAVID LAVERY      2. Performing Veronica Mars SUE TURNBULL      3. So Cal Pietà: Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls, and the Search for the Mother RHONDA V. WILCOX      4. “Who’s Your Daddy?”: Issues of Fatherhood SARAH A. LEAVITT and LEWIS A. LEAVITT      5. Family Matters: Antigone, Veronica, and the Classical Greek Paradigm STAN BEELER      6. Rethinking “The Getting Even Part”: Feminist Anger and Vigilante Justice in a Post-9/11 America TAMY BURNETT and MELISSA TOWNSEND      7. “Get My Revenge On”: The Anti- Hero’s Journey PAUL ZINDER      8. This Teen Sleuth’s Tricks Aren’t Just for Kids: Connecting with an Intergenerational Audience LISA EMMERTON      9. “We Used to Be Friends”: Breaking up with America’s Sweetheart SOPHIE MAYER      10. “No Longer That Girl”: Rape Narrative and Meaning in Veronica Mars SARAH WHITNEY      11. Neptune (Non-)Consensual: The Risky Business of Television Fandom, Falling in Love, and Playing the Victim TANYA R. COCHRAN      Episode Credits      Cast Credits      Contributors      Index     

Reviews

"""A fine group of essays... This is a model for what TV studies should be like, both in its focus on the subject and for the case it makes for the excellence of this particular series. ... valuable""--Pop Matters"

“A fine group of essays... This is a model for what TV studies should be like, both in its focus on the subject and for the case it makes for the excellence of this particular series. ... valuable”—Pop Matters

A fine group of essays... This is a model for what TV studies should be like, both in its focus on the subject and for the case it makes for the excellence of this particular series. ... valuable --I>Pop Matters

Author Information

Rhonda V. Wilcox is a professor emeritus at Gordon State College in Georgia. For ten years she was the editor of Studies in Popular Culture. She is cofounder and editor of Slayage and is the author of previous books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other series. She lives in Decatur, Georgia. Sue Turnbull is the chair of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She has published broadly in the fields of media education, audience studies and television, with particular attention to the representation of crime in popular culture.

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