Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the MoviesA 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 |
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