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Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Television and Popular Culture)
David Diffrient
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Description for Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Television and Popular Culture)
Hardcover. 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). Editor(s): Diffrient, David Scott. Series: Television and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 372 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 699.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Television and Popular Culture
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632399
SKU
V9780815632399
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About David Diffrient
David Scott Diffrient is assistant professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University. His articles have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including Journal of Popular Film and Television, Cinema journal, Critical Studies in Television and the Journal of Film and Video. He is the author of M*A*S*H David Lavery is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State ... Read more
Reviews for Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls (Television and Popular Culture)
The continuing fascination with Gilmore Girls . . . suggest just how much there is to the show, and the essays in this collection mine much of this territory quite well.