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SCREWBALL TELEVISION
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GILMORE GIRLS |
| By: |
David Scott Diffrient (Editor), David Lavery |
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Hardback |
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£33.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0815632398 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780815632399 |
| Publisher: |
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
9 April, 2010 |
| Series: |
Television and Popular Culture |
| Pages: |
372 |
| Description: |
Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, this title offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007). |
| Synopsis: |
Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, "Screwball Television" offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007). 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, sleeped in intertextual references, and framed as a 'kinder, gentler kind of cult television series' in this lightly focused yet wide-ranging collection. This volume makes a significant contribution to television studies, genre studies, and women's studies, taking Gilmore Girls as its focus while adopting a panoramic critical approach sensitive to such topics as serialized fiction, elite education; addiction as a social construct; food consumption and the disciplining of bodies; post-feminism and female desire: depictions of journalism in popular culture; the changing face of masculinity in contemporary U.S. society; liturgical and ritualistic structures in televisual narrative; Orientalism and Asian representations on American TV: Internet fan discourses; and new genre theories attuned to the landscape of twenty-first-century media convergence."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. |
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notes, references, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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