Description: 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 narrative and meaning; and television fandom, among others.
Brief description: Rhonda V. Wilcox is 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.
Review Quotes: "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