{"product_id":"screwball-television-critical-perspectives-on-gilmore-girls-9780815635284","title":"Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, \u003ci\u003eScrewball Television\u003c\/i\u003e offers a variety of international perspectives on \u003ci\u003eGilmore Girls\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume makes a significant contribution to television studies, genre studies, and women's studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScrewball Television\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to bring \u003ci\u003eGilmore Girls\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Scott Diffrient\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. His articles have been published in \u003ci\u003eCinema Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Film and Video\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Review of Film and Television Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Review of Film and Video\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOmnibus Films: Theorizing Transauthorial Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and the co-author of \u003ci\u003eMovie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lavery\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of more than one hundred published essays, chapters, and reviews, he was author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of several published books, including \u003ci\u003eLate for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age, Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to \"Twin Peaks\", \"Deny All Knowledge\" Reading \"The X-Files\", Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\", Teleparody: Predicting\/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow, Reading \"The Sopranos\" Hit TV from HBO, \"Lost\"'s Buried Treasures, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Finding \"Battlestar Galactica\". \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413421363474,"sku":"9780815635284","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba93f81b-43e0-4fc4-b2a1-bf614c1c9f9b.jpg?v=1729353577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/screwball-television-critical-perspectives-on-gilmore-girls-9780815635284","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}