Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xii

Film and Television Work by Amy Heckerling

pp xiii-xiv

1 - Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Heckerling in Teen Film and Television

pp 13-16

2 - Cher and Dionne BFFs: Female Friendship, Genre, and Medium Specificity in the Film and Television Versions of Amy Heckerling's Clueless

pp 17-35

3 - Fast Times with Clueless Losers: Lessons on Sex and Gender in Amy Heckerling's Teen Films

pp 36-52

4 - “As If a Girl's Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp”: Gendering Genericity and Spectatorial Address in the Work of Amy Heckerling

pp 53-72

Part II - Ingenuity and Irony in the Heckerling Lexicon

pp 73-76

5 - Consumerism and the Languages of Class: American Teenagers View Amy Heckerling's Clueless

pp 77-96

6 - “An Increasingly Valid Form of Expression”: Teenspeak and Community Identity in the Work of Amy Heckerling

pp 97-114

Part III - Femininity, Aging, and Postfeminism

pp 115-118

7 - Look Who's Doing the Caring: Shared Parenting, Subjectivity, and Gender Roles in Heckerling's Look Who's Talking Films

pp 119-134

8 - Amy Heckerling's Place in Hollywood: Issues of Aging and Sisterhood in I Could Never Be Your Woman and Vamps

pp 135-153

9 - “Staying Young is Getting Old”: Youth and Immortality in Vamps

pp 154-170

Part IV - Reflections on the Heckerling Oeuvre

pp 171-174

10 - “But Seriously, I Actually Have a Way Normal Life for a Teenage Girl”: The Teenage Female Empowerment Payoff in Amy Heckerling's Clueless

pp 175-197

11 - Clueless Times at the Ferris Bueller Club: A Critical Analysis of the Directorial Works of Amy Heckerling and John Hughes

pp 198-217

12 - Way Hilarious: Amy Heckerling as a Female Comedy Director, Writer, and Producer

pp 218-239

Appendix - Other Films and Television Shows Cited in this Collection

pp 240-246

Bibliography

pp 247-258

Index

pp 259-265