Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling
Chapter 1: Introduction, Frances Smith and Timothy Shary
I: Heckerling in Teen Film and Television
Chapter 2: Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Susan Berridge
Chapter 3: Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling’s Teen Films, Zachary Finch
Chapter 4: “As If a Girl’s Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Mary Harrod
II: Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon
Chapter 5: Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Andrea Press and Ellen Rosenman
Chapter 6: “An increasingly valid form of expression”: Teen-speak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling, Lisa Richards
III: Femininity, Ageing, and Postfeminism
Chapter 7: Look Who’s Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling’s Look Who’s Talking Films, Claire Jenkins
Chapter 8: Amy Heckerling’s Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps, Betty Kaklamanidou
Chapter 9: “Staying Young is Getting Old”: Youth and Immortality in Vamps, Murray Leeder
IV: Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre
Chapter 10: “But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl”: The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless, Stefania Marghitu and Lindsey Alexander
Chapter 11: Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes, Kimberly M. Miller
Chapter 12: Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer, Lesley Speed
Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection
Bibliography
Contributors