Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls by David Diffrient,David Lavery

By David Diffrient,David Lavery

JBringing jointly seventeen unique essays by means of students from worldwide, Screwball tv deals numerous overseas views on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000â€"2007). loved through fanatics and celebrated by way of critics for its subtle wordplay and compelling portrayal of a mother-daughter dating, this modern American television application ultimately will get its due as a cultural creation in contrast to any otherâ€" person who is beholden to Hollywood's screwball comedies of the Thirties, steeped in intertextual references, and framed as a "kinder, gentler type of cult tv sequence" during this tightly centred but wide-ranging collection.This quantity makes an important contribution to tv stories, style stories, and women's reports, taking Gilmore Girls as its concentration whereas adopting a wide ranging serious method delicate to such issues as

  • serialized fiction
  • elite education
  • addiction as a social construct
  • food intake and the disciplining of bodies
  • post-feminism and feminine desire
  • depictions of journalism in well known culture
  • the altering face of masculinity in modern U.S. society
  • liturgical and ritualistic buildings in televisual narrative
  • Orientalism and Asian representations on American TV
  • Internet fan discourses
  • new style theories attuned to the panorama of twenty-first-century media convergence

Screwball tv seeks to bring Gilmore Girls more totally into educational discourse not just as a subject matter worthwhile of serious scrutiny but in addition as an infinitely lucrative textual content in a position to stimulating the mind's eye of scholars past the classroom.

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