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This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of the Other in the media. This collection explores depictions of characters of color and/or LGBTQ characters in teen supernatural serials who were/are marginalized and examines the possible issues that these depictions can raise on a social level and, possibly, a developmental level for audience members who belong to these communities. The essays included in this collection thoroughly examine these characters and their narratives while providing nuanced examinations of how the media chooses to represent teens of color and LGBTQIA+ teens.

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This exciting collection offers a significant and timely contribution to understandings of contemporary televisual media. In its exploration of representations of gender, race and sexuality in teen supernatural serials, it speaks to contemporary debates on media representation and visibility, seriality and storytelling, and the teen and supernatural genre/s. In its engaging selection of chapters, the collection draws out detailed intersectional critiques of the complexities of representation, both celebrating its possibilities and revealing its limitations. These insightful and necessary discussions will be of significant interest to others in the field. -- Kate McNicholas Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Westminster

This exciting collection offers a significant and timely contribution to understandings of contemporary televisual media. In its exploration of representations of gender, race and sexuality in teen supernatural serials, it speaks to contemporary debates on media representation and visibility, seriality and storytelling, and the teen and supernatural genre/s. In its engaging selection of chapters, the collection draws out detailed intersectional critiques of the complexities of representation, both celebrating its possibilities and revealing its limitations. These insightful and necessary discussions will be of significant interest to others in the field. --Kate McNicholas Smith, Lecturer in Television Theory, University of Westminster

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Camille S. Alexander is assistant professor of English at Tuskegee University.

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