domingo, 20 de março de 2011

Novo livro sobre as Gilmore Girls



O livro não é bem novo, visto que saiu em Março de 2010 mas só agora tive conhecimento dele. Chama-se Screwball Television: Critical Perspective on Gilmore Girls (Television and popular Culture). o livro trata-se de um conjunto de 17 ensaios sobre variados temas relacionados com a sociedade actual. Temas que vão do feminismo ao elitismo educacional. Parece-me super interessante e depois do companion é o livro que vou comprar.

Fiquem com uma descrição do livro:

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, 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, taking Gilmore Girls as its focus while adopting a panoramic critical approach sensitive to such topics as
  • serialized fiction
  • elite education
  • addiction as a social construct
  • food consumption and the disciplining of bodies
  • post-feminism and female desire
  • depictions of journalism in popular culture
  • the changing face of masculinity in contemporary U.S. society
  • liturgical and ritualistic structures in televisual narrative
  • Orientalism and Asian representations on American TV
  • Internet fan discourses
  • new genre theories attuned to the landscape of twenty-first-century media convergence
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.

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