Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls

By David Lavery and David Scott Diffrient

Book Overview

Bringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, Screwball Television offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls. 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.
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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632398
• ISBN13: 9780815632399
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"