Introduction

youth living in paranoiac times

1-13

Madness and paranoia

17-28

From self-reflexion to self-reflexion

acknowledging the inhuman

29-46

Dawson's creek's reflexivity

savvy poststructuralism

49-60

Dawson's creek

the postlude

61-73

Freaks and geeks

"i don't give a damn "bout a bad reputation"

75-90

And the geeks freaks will inherit the earth

91-109

The death drive's at stake

buffy

113-132

The buffyverse soteriology

youth's garden of earthly delights

133-149

Aliens "r" us

searching for the posthuman teenager

153-167

Smallville, somebody save me!

bringing superman down to earth

169-186

Stamping out alien-human freaks

smallville's moral duty

187-196

Afterword—a self-reflexive moment

197-199