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kory.'s Reviews > Teen Dreams: Reading Teen Film and Television from 'Heathers' to 'Veronica Mars'

Teen Dreams by Roz Kaveney
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it was ok
bookshelves: age-adult, genre-nonfiction, genre-pop-culture, rating-2-stars, read-in-2024, stand-alone

when you say a character is autistic because he fucked an apple pie i can’t take anything you say seriously.

i read this for the essay on veronica mars. mistakes were made. i’ll just list everything.

overall lackluster, directionless, and felt more like a summary of a bunch of movies and shows rather than any kind of meaningful and connected analysis.

the author decided teen movies/shows about nonwhite teens don’t count as part of the teen genre. for some reason.

if you’re not a john hughes girlie, the first 38 page chapter might be a bit of a snooze for you, as it was for me.

queer readings here amount to “these guys hate each other, obviously they want to fuck� and “these girls like each other, obviously they want to fuck.�

seriously, the author says mac (from veronica mars) had “more than a passing sexual interest� in veronica and then moves on without ever expanding on it or giving any reason to believe it.

another essay on veronica mars that skirts around naming what happened to veronica on the night of the party when she was drugged. she was repeatedly sexually violated (raped twice and sexually assaulted many times over) that night. be frank or don’t even bother discussing it.

the author made sure to add a note about how veronica/logan is similar to hermione/draco in fanfiction. randomly. apropos of nothing. super fucking weird.

says nothing of the sexual subtext of veronica and eli’s relationship but argues the sexual/romantic subtext of veronica/lilly, veronica/mac, and logan/eli. okay.

content/trigger warnings; discussions of ableism, r slur, racism, homophobia, f slur, lesbophobia, d slur, transphobia, misogyny, child abuse, sexual abuse, sexual assault, rape, drugging, murder, physical violence, incest, classism, amatonormativity,
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Reading Progress

January 5, 2024 – Shelved
January 5, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
January 28, 2024 – Started Reading
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: age-adult
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: genre-nonfiction
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: genre-pop-culture
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: rating-2-stars
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: read-in-2024
January 30, 2024 – Shelved as: stand-alone
January 30, 2024 – Finished Reading

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