Investigating Veronica Mars
Essays on the Teen Detective Series
Published on 22. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-7864-4534-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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"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 MattersMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, appendix, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4534-9 (9780786445349)
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Persons
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.
Content
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 Pieta: 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
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 Pieta: 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