Investigating Veronica Mars : essays on the teen detective series / edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Sue Turnbull.
"Essays explore many aspects of the teen detective series, including Veronica Mars and vintage television; the search for the mother; fatherhood; how the show relates to the classical Greek paradigm; feminist anger and vigilante justice; the anti-hero's journey; the intergenerational audience; rape...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2011.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 202 pages |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Canonical Veronica: Veronica Mars and vintage television / Rhonda V. Wilcox and Sue Turnbull
- Rob Thomas and television creativity / David Lavery
- Performing Veronica Mars / Sue Turnbull
- So Cal Piete: Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls and the search for the mother / Rhonda V. Wilcox
- "Who's your daddy?": issues of fatherhood / Sarah A. Leavitt and Lewis A. Leavitt
- Family matters: Antigone, Veronica and the classical Greek paradigm / Stan Beeler
- Rethinking "the getting even part": feminist anger and vigilante justice in a post-9/11 America / Tamy Burnett and Melissa Townsend
- "Get my revenge on": the anti-hero's journey / Paul Zinder
- This teen sleuth's tricks aren't just for kids: connecting with an intergenerational audience / Lisa Emmerton
- "We used to be friends": breaking up with America's sweetheart / Sophie Mayer
- "No longer that girl": rape narrative and meaning in Veronica Mars / Sarah Whitney
- Neptune (non-)consensual: the risky business of television fandom, falling in love and playing the victim / Tanya R. Cochran
- Episode credits
- Cast credits
- Contributors.