Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls

Contributors

ix Contributors A MOR M U ÑOZ BÉC A R E S earned a Ph.D. in journalism at Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera in Valencia and is professor of newspaper design and magazine design at Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera in Valencia. A LYSON R . BUC K M A N is associate professor of humanities and religious studies at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches courses on film, popular culture, and American culture. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Modern Fiction Studies, Exchanges, FEMSPEC, the Journal of American Culture, and Investigating Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier (2008). She also cochairs the Science Fiction and Fantasy Area of the Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association. She believes that french fries are a gateway food, wishes she could be ice cream queen, and—like Rory—likes to carry a book with her always . . . just in case. H Y E SEU NG C H U NG is assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is the author of Hollywood Asian: Philip Ahn and the Politics of Cross-Ethnic Performance (2006) as well as numerous articles on Korean cinema and Asian American cultural identities. One of her most recent essays, published in the collection Grace under Pressure (2008), concerns Asian American identities and new images of multiculturalism in the television series Grey’s Anatomy. She is currently writing a book on the films of Kim Ki-duk for the University of Illinois Press’s “Contemporary Film Directors” series. x | Contributors G I A DA DA RO S is a law graduate and a journalist. She has been a TV critic for an Italian weekly paper called Il Popolo for the past eighteen years. She has published essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Slayage and on Queer as Folk, Lost, and The L Word in Ol3Media, the official magazine of the Masters in Radio and Television of the Department of Communication and Show Business of the University of Roma 3. She has interviewed and written about TV writer Patrick Mulcahey on more than one occasion, including for the upcoming collection The Survival of the Soap Opera: Strategies for a New Media Era (2010). She might have followed Paris’s studying regimen in the past, but—unlike her—she “deserves General Hospital.” DAV I D SC O T T DI F F R I E N T is assistant professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University. His essays have appeared in such journals and edited collections as Cinema Journal; Film and History; Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television; Journal of Film and Video; Journal of Popular Film and Television; Post Script; New Korean Cinema (2005), and Reading “Deadwood”: A Western to Swear By (2006). He recently published a critical study of M*A*S*H as part of Wayne State University Press’s “TV Milestones” series (2008). Like Lorelai, he believes that coffee is best brewed “one bag per cup of water.” JA N E F EU E R is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Her main areas of interest are film, popular culture, television, and cultural studies. Her many publications include The Hollywood Musical (2nd ed., 1993) and Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism (1995). JOYC E G OG G I N is associate professor of literature, film, and new media at the University of Amsterdam and head of studies for the humanities at Amsterdam University College. She has published numerous articles on the novel, Hollywood film, television, and computer games, as well as the history of money, gambling, finance, art history, and economics . Joyce fervently hopes that in the virtually inevitable Gilmore Girls movie, Lorelai will get married to Chris (again). Contributors | xi A M A N DA R . K E E L E R is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. She is currently writing her dissertation, which explores the history of using film, radio, and television for educational purposes. Her research interests include emergent media technologies, the television industry, and women’s television. DAV I D L AV E R Y is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University . The author of more than one hundred published essays, chapters, and reviews, he is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of...