Teen television
Subtitle: essays on programming and fandom
By: edited by Sharon Marie Ross and Louisa Ellen Stein.
Contributors: Ross, Sharon Marie.; Stein, Louisa Ellen.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson City, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780786435890
Subjects: Television programs for youth -- United States; Television and teenagers -- United States
Description: "This essay collection explores "teen TV" in the U.S., describing the meanings and manifestations of this category of programming from a variety of perspectives. It views teen TV through an industrial perspective, focuses on popular programs from a cultural context, and explores the cultures of reception through which teens have become authors of the teenage experience"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: TV teen club : teen tv as safe harbor / Jeff Martin; title: Teen television and the WB television network / Valerie Wee; title: Defining teen culture : the N network / Sharon Marie Ross; title: Rocking prime time : gender, the WB, and teen culture / Ben Aslinger; title: "Normal is the watchword" : exiling cultural anxieties and redefining desire from the margins / Caralyn Bolte; title: Riding the third wave : the multiple feminisms of The Gilmore girls / Francesca Gamber; title: "That girl of yours-she's pretty hardboiled, huh?" : detecting feminism in Veronica Mars / Andrea Braithwaite; title: The portrait of an artist as a young fan : consumption and queer inspiration in Six feet under / Barbara Brickman; title: "They stole me" : the O.C., masculinity, and the strategies of teen TV / Sue Turnbull; title: Fashion sleuths and aerie girls : Veronica Mars' fan forums and network strategies of fan address / Jennifer Gillan; title: The adventures of a repressed farm boy and the billionaire who loves him : queer spectatorship in Smallville fandom / Melanie E.S. Kohnen; title: Pushing at the margins : teenage angst in teen TV and audience response / Louisa Ellen Stein.