Screwball television : critical perspectives on Gilmore girls / edited by David Scott Diffrient with David Lavery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diffrient, David Scott, 1972-

Lavery, David, 1949-

Series:

Television and popular culture.

Television and popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gilmore girls (Television program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. Adored by fans and celebrated by critics for its sophisticated wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, this contemporary American TV program finally gets its due as a cultural production unlike any other, one that is beholden to Hollywood's screwball comedies of the 1930s, steeped in intertextual references, and framed as a "kinder, gentler kind of cult television series" in this tightly focused yet wide-ranging collection.This volume makes a significant contribution to television studies, genre studies, and women's studies. Screwball Television seeks to bring Gilmore Girls more fully into academic discourse not only as a topic worthy of critical scrutiny but also as an infinitely rewarding text capable of stimulating the imagination of students beyond the classroom.

Contents:

Introduction: "you're about to be Gilmored" / David Scott Diffrient

Authorship, genre, literacy, televisuality. "Impossible girl": Amy Sherman-Palladino and television creativity / David Lavery

Branding the family drama: genre formations and critical perspectives on Gilmore girls / Amanda R. Keeler

Your guide to the girls: Gilmore-isms, cultural capital, and a different kind of quality TV / Justin Owen Rawlins

TV "dramedy" and the double-sided "liturgy" of Gilmore Girls / Giada Da Ros

Real and imagined communities (in town and online). The gift of Gilmore girls' gab: fan podcasts and the task of "talking back" to TV / David Scott Diffrient

"I wll try harder to merge the worlds": expanding narrative and navigating spaces in Gilmore girls / Radha O'Meara

"You've always been the head pilgrim girl": stars hollow as the embodiment of the American dream / Alyson R. Buckman

Town meetings of the imagination: Gilmore girls and Northern exposure / Jane Feuer

Race, class, education, profession. Escaping from Korea: cultural authenticity and Asian American identities in Gilmore girls / Hye Seung Chung

"The thing that reads a lot": bibliophilia, college life, and literary culture in Gilmore girls / Anna Viola Sborgi

Stars hollow, Chilton, and the politics of education in Gilmore girls / Matthew C. Nelson

"You don't got it": becoming a journalist in Gilmore girls / Angel Castaños Martínez, Amor Muñoz Bécares, and Sarah Caitlin Lavery

Food, addiction, gender, sexuality. Pass the Pop-Tarts: the Gilmore girls' perpetual hunger / Susannah B. Mintz and Leah E. Mintz

"Nigella's deep-frying a Snickers bar!": addiction as a social construct in Gilmore girls / Joyce Goggin

Java junkies versus balcony buddies: Gilmore girls, "shipping," and contemporary sexuality / A. Rochelle Mabry

"But Luke and Lorelai belong together!": relationships, social control, and Gilmore girls / Jimmie Manning

What a girl wants: men and masculinity in Gilmore girls / Laura Nathan.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815650690

0815650698

OCLC:

785782971