Screwball television
Subtitle: critical perspectives on Gilmore girls
By: edited by David Scott Diffrient with David Lavery.
Contributors: Diffrient, David Scott, 1972-; Lavery, David, 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Television and popular culture
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Syracuse
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780815632399
Subjects: Gilmore girls (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "you're about to be Gilmored" / David Scott Diffrient; title: Authorship, genre, literacy, televisuality. "Impossible girl": Amy Sherman-Palladino and television creativity / David Lavery; title: Branding the family drama: genre formations and critical perspectives on Gilmore girls / Amanda R. Keeler; title: Your guide to the girls: Gilmore-isms, cultural capital, and a different kind of quality TV / Justin Owen Rawlins; title: TV "dramedy" and the double-sided "liturgy" of Gilmore Girls / Giada Da Ros; title: 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; title: "I wll try harder to merge the worlds": expanding narrative and navigating spaces in Gilmore girls / Radha O'Meara; title: "You've always been the head pilgrim girl": stars hollow as the embodiment of the American dream / Alyson R. Buckman; title: Town meetings of the imagination: Gilmore girls and Northern exposure /  Jane Feuer; title: Race, class, education, profession. Escaping from Korea: cultural authenticity and Asian American identities in Gilmore girls / Hye Seung Chung; title: "The thing that reads a lot": bibliophilia, college life, and literary culture in Gilmore girls / Anna Viola Sborgi; title: Stars hollow, Chilton, and the politics of education in Gilmore girls / Matthew C. Nelson; title: "You don't got it": becoming a journalist in Gilmore girls / Angel Casta±os Martønez, Amor Mu±oz Bécares, and Sarah Caitlin Lavery; title: Food, addiction, gender, sexuality. Pass the Pop-Tarts: the Gilmore girls' perpetual hunger / Susannah B. Mintz and Leah E. Mintz; title: "Nigella's deep-frying a Snickers bar!": addiction as a social construct in Gilmore girls / Joyce Goggin; title: Java junkies versus balcony buddies: Gilmore girls, "shipping," and contemporary sexuality / A. Rochelle Mabry; title: "But Luke and Lorelai belong together!": relationships, social control, and Gilmore girls / Jimmie Manning; title: What a girl wants: men and masculinity in Gilmore girls / Laura Nathan.