Screwball television :: critical perspectives on Gilmore girls /

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-daugh...

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Weitere Verfasser: Diffrient, David Scott, 1972- (HerausgeberIn), Lavery, David, 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Television and popular culture.
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Zusammenfassung: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, 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, 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 - 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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxvi, 380 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and index.
ISBN:9780815650690
0815650698

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