Screwball Television: Gilmore Girls

Tentative Table of Contents

Edited by David Scott Diffrient and David Lavery

 Introduction by David Scott Diffrient and David Lavery

Authorship, Genre, Televisuality, Musicality

• David Lavery (Brunel University): “Impossible Girl": Amy Sherman-Palladino and Television Creativity

• Amanda Keeler (Indiana University): Critical Perspectives and Genre Formations in Gilmore Girls

• Justin Rawlins (Indiana University): Gilmore-isms, Cultural Capital and a Different Kind of “Quality” TV

• Anna Viola Sborgi (University of Genoa): “But not as cute as Pushkin”: Reading into and through Gilmore Girls

• Giada DaRos (University of Trento): The Double-Sided Use Of Liturgy In Gilmore Girls

• Hillary Robson (Middle Tennessee State University): Music in Gilmore Girls

Real and Imagined Communities (in Town and Online)

• David Scott Diffrient (Washington University in St. Louis): The Gift of Gilmore Girls’ Gab: Fan Podcasts for a Kinder, Gentler Kind of Cult TV Series

• Radha O’Meara (University of  Melbourne): Our Little Corner of the World: The Expanding Communities of Gilmore Girls

• Alyson Buckman (California State University, Sacramento): S’Wonderful, S’Marvelous: Stars Hollow as the Embodiment of the American Dream

• Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh): Town Meetings in Northern Exposure and Gilmore Girls

Race, Class, Education, Profession

• Stacia Watkins (Middle Tennessee State University):  Identifying with Esperanza: Audience and Wealth in Gilmore Girls

• David Scott Diffrient (Washington University in St. Louis): Sandra Oh Meets Mao Zedong: Ethnic Slippage, (Sino)Korean Culture, and the (Post)Orientalism of Gilmore Girls

• Matthew Nelson (Francis Marion University): Stars Hollow, Chilton, and the Politics of Education in Gilmore Girls

• Angel Castaños Martínez & Amor Munoz Bécares (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera in Valencia):  “What it takes to make it as a journalist” on Gilmore Girls

Food, Addiction, Gender, Sexualty

• Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam): “Nigella's deep-frying a Snickers bar!”: Gilmore Girls and Addiction as a Social Construct

• Susannah B. Mintz (Skidmore College) & Leah Mintz: Pass the Pop-Tarts: Food and the Disciplining of Bodies in Gilmore Girls

• A. Rochelle Mabry (Florida Atlantic University): Java Junkies vs. Balcony Buddies: Gilmore Girls, “Shipping,” and Contemporary Sexuality

• Jimmie Manning (Northern Kentucky University): “But Luke and Lorelai Belong Together!” Relationships, Social Control, and Gilmore Girls

• Laura Nathan (Bennington College): “What a Girl Wants”: Men and Masculinity in Gilmore Girls

Appendix

 v      Selected Fan Fiction

 v      Cultural References in Gilmore Girls