Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies

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Scarecrow Press, 1998 - Performing Arts - 189 pages
A fresh and exciting look at a classic Hollywood role that supports the possibility that Torchy Blane, and other female film reporters and their real-world counterparts, are the grittiest girls around.
 

Contents

Why Are There Newspaper Films?
5
Girl Reporter
6
B Is for
10
Whats in a Name?
12
One Discourse among Many and All the Same
15
The YellowHaired Peril
20
Star Light Star Bright
23
At the Wax Museum
27
The Kiss
80
Criminal Behavior
85
Accept No Substitutes
88
Unequal Partners
92
Anything for a Story
99
In Black and White
109
Flameout
112
The Ghost in the Machine
115

Sisters
30
Dream Job
48
Black Bart
52
As the World Turns to Crap
56
NotSoGreat Expectations
59
The ManTailored Woman
66
Legalese
69
Love Is Murder
73
Cineplexity
118
Notes
139
Filmography of Torchy Blane Series
165
Supplemental Filmography
171
Selected Bibliography
179
Index
187
About the Author
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Howard Good (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Journalism, SUNY at New Paltz. He has written extensively on journalism, gender, and film in American culture.

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