Sharon Marie Ross is an assistant professor in the television department at Columbia College, Chicago. She has written extensively about television, and is currently the associate editor for the Journal of International Digital Media Arts Association. She lives in Chicago. Louisa Ellen Stein is an assistant professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College in Vermont. She has written previously on contemporary media culture, including film, television, the Internet and videogames.

“fascinating...amazing...required reading for anyone in the film and/or television industry...fascinating and interesting”—Canyon News.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction: Watching Teen TV      Part I—The Industrial Context of Teen TV      271. TV Teen Club: Teen TV as Safe HarborJeff Martin      2. Teen Television and the WB Television NetworkValerie Wee      433. Defining Teen Culture: The N NetworkSharon Marie Ross      614. Rocking Prime Time: Gender, the WB, and Teen CultureBen Aslinger      78Part II—Teens on TV      5. “Normal is the watchword”: Exiling Cultural Anxieties and Redefining Desire from the MarginsCaralyn Bolte      6. Riding the Third Wave: The Multiple Feminisms of Gilmore GirlsFrancesca Gamber      1147. “That girl of yours—she’s pretty hardboiled, huh?”: Detecting Feminism in Veronica MarsAndrea Braithwaite      8. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet UnderBarbara Brickman      1509. “They stole me”: The O.C., Masculinity, and the Strategies of TeenSue Turnbull      170Part III—Cultures of Reception      10. Fashion Sleuths and Aerie Girls: Veronica Mars’Forums and Network Strategies of Fan AddressJennifer Gillan      18511. The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville FandomMelanie E.S. Kohnen      20712. Pushing at the Margins: Teenage Angst in Teen TV and Audience ResponseLouisa Ellen Stein      224Contributors      Index

Sharon Marie Ross is an assistant professor in the television department at Columbia College, Chicago. She has written extensively about television, and is currently the associate editor for the Journal of International Digital Media Arts Association. She lives in Chicago. Louisa Ellen Stein is an assistant professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College in Vermont. She has written previously on contemporary media culture, including film, television, the Internet and videogames.

“fascinating...amazing...required reading for anyone in the film and/or television industry...fascinating and interesting”—Canyon News.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction: Watching Teen TV      Part I—The Industrial Context of Teen TV      271. TV Teen Club: Teen TV as Safe HarborJeff Martin      2. Teen Television and the WB Television NetworkValerie Wee      433. Defining Teen Culture: The N NetworkSharon Marie Ross      614. Rocking Prime Time: Gender, the WB, and Teen CultureBen Aslinger      78Part II—Teens on TV      5. “Normal is the watchword”: Exiling Cultural Anxieties and Redefining Desire from the MarginsCaralyn Bolte      6. Riding the Third Wave: The Multiple Feminisms of Gilmore GirlsFrancesca Gamber      1147. “That girl of yours—she’s pretty hardboiled, huh?”: Detecting Feminism in Veronica MarsAndrea Braithwaite      8. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet UnderBarbara Brickman      1509. “They stole me”: The O.C., Masculinity, and the Strategies of TeenSue Turnbull      170Part III—Cultures of Reception      10. Fashion Sleuths and Aerie Girls: Veronica Mars’Forums and Network Strategies of Fan AddressJennifer Gillan      18511. The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville FandomMelanie E.S. Kohnen      20712. Pushing at the Margins: Teenage Angst in Teen TV and Audience ResponseLouisa Ellen Stein      224Contributors      Index

Sharon Marie Ross is an assistant professor in the television department at Columbia College, Chicago. She has written extensively about television, and is currently the associate editor for the Journal of International Digital Media Arts Association. She lives in Chicago. Louisa Ellen Stein is an assistant professor of film and media culture at Middlebury College in Vermont. She has written previously on contemporary media culture, including film, television, the Internet and videogames.

“fascinating...amazing...required reading for anyone in the film and/or television industry...fascinating and interesting”—Canyon News.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Introduction: Watching Teen TV      Part I—The Industrial Context of Teen TV      271. TV Teen Club: Teen TV as Safe HarborJeff Martin      2. Teen Television and the WB Television NetworkValerie Wee      433. Defining Teen Culture: The N NetworkSharon Marie Ross      614. Rocking Prime Time: Gender, the WB, and Teen CultureBen Aslinger      78Part II—Teens on TV      5. “Normal is the watchword”: Exiling Cultural Anxieties and Redefining Desire from the MarginsCaralyn Bolte      6. Riding the Third Wave: The Multiple Feminisms of Gilmore GirlsFrancesca Gamber      1147. “That girl of yours—she’s pretty hardboiled, huh?”: Detecting Feminism in Veronica MarsAndrea Braithwaite      8. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Fan: Consumption and Queer Inspiration in Six Feet UnderBarbara Brickman      1509. “They stole me”: The O.C., Masculinity, and the Strategies of TeenSue Turnbull      170Part III—Cultures of Reception      10. Fashion Sleuths and Aerie Girls: Veronica Mars’Forums and Network Strategies of Fan AddressJennifer Gillan      18511. The Adventures of a Repressed Farm Boy and the Billionaire Who Loves Him: Queer Spectatorship in Smallville FandomMelanie E.S. Kohnen      20712. Pushing at the Margins: Teenage Angst in Teen TV and Audience ResponseLouisa Ellen Stein      224Contributors      Index