Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling xiii
7. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
8. Part I Heckerling in Teen Film and Television
9. Introduction to Part I 15
10. Chapter 2 Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless 17
11. Chapter 3 Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling’s Teen Films 36
12. Chapter 4 “As If a Girl’s Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling 53
13. Part II Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon
14. Introduction to Part II 75
15. Chapter 5 Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling’s Clueless 77
16. Chapter 6 “An Increasingly Valid Form of Expression”: Teenspeak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling 97
17. Part III Femininity, Aging, and Postfeminism
18. Introduction to Part III 117
19. Chapter 7 Look Who’s Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling’s Look Who’s Talking Films 119
20. Chapter 8 Amy Heckerling’s Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps 135
21. Chapter 9 ‘Staying Young is Getting Old’: Youth and Immortality in Vamps 154
22. Part IV Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre
23. Introduction to Part IV 173
24. 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 175
25. Chapter 11 Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes 198
26. Chapter 12 Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer 218
27. Appendix: Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection 240
28. Bibliography 247
29. Index 259