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Screwball Television - Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Hardcover)
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Screwball Television - Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Hardcover)
Series: Television and Popular Culture
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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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