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Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History | Lara C. Stache, Rachel Davidson
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No longer just a cult classic, Gilmore Girls is a cultural staple for TV fans. Airing from 20002007, Gilmore Girls focused on the relationship between thirty-something single mom Lorelai and her teenage daughter, Rory. While exploring themes of family, romantic love, friendship, and lifes choices, this quirky show featured fast-paced dialogue, funny quips, and a steady stream of pop-culture references. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Gilmore Girls served as a launching pad for the careers of its starsincluding Lauren Graham, Melissa McCarthy, Alexis Bledel, Jared Padalecki, and Milo Ventimiglia. The series popularity was so enduring that ten years after its initial run, a revival season was released on Netflix. In Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History, Lara C. Stache and Rachel Davidson offer an engaging analysis of the popular series. The authors examine how the show serves as a representation of American culture and politics, reflects complexity within multiple mother-daughter dynamics, and employed literature, movies, and music to drive the dialogue and plot. They also explore how the choices made in the series reflect social values of the time, reinforce and challenge traditional ideas of gender and feminism, and unpack the cultural significance of this endearing series. As both a mirror and a construction of contemporary American culture, the series achieved critical accolades and became a cult classic, at once both unassuming and dynamic. This book offers new ways for fans to appreciate the appeal and value of this binge-worthy favorite as part of the larger culture in which it exists. Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History will be of interest to fans of the show as well as to scholars and students of television, media, and American popular culture.
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Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History | Lara C. Stache, Rachel Davidson
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Since I've convinced myself it's fall already, I'm rewatching Gilmore Girls ☕️🍁📚🍔💕

Tera66 🤎☕️🤎 2y
Nikki_E I‘m almost ready for a rewatch. 2y
KateReadsYA @Nikki_E it's such a cozy show 2y
Nikki_E @KateReadsYA I know. I have rewatched close to ten times. It‘s a comfort show for sure. 2y
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Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History | Lara C. Stache, Rachel Davidson
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LiteraryLona I just realized the grandmother on GG was Baby‘s mom in Dirty Dancing 💃🏻 🤯 2y
TheBookHippie @LiteraryLona 😂😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 2y
LA_Mead Whoa! Mind blown! 2y
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Curly_Reader Ahhh thanks ima watch that tonight before bed. I will forever watch Gilmore girls for the rest of my life loo 4y
InkintheMargins I smell snow! ❄☃️ ❤Gilmore Girls! 4y
rather_be_reading @MadDashReading one of my all time fav episodes 4y
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Gilmore Girls: A Cultural History | Lara C. Stache, Rachel Davidson
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This is a fun read, a thought-provoking read, and a comfort-read. It's like spending a couple of hours talking with some pretty intelligent friends about a TV show you all really like. It's impossible to watch the show without thinking about it in the terms the authors choose to focus on—relationships, feminism, wealth, community, family—but most fans probably haven't focused on it to the extent this volume does. https://wp.me/p3z9AH-4eo for more

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Book 112 of 2019
#netgalley #ebook #arc

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