Mamma Mia! The Movie : Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon (Paperback)

Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Facing our Waterloo: evaluating Mamma Mia! The Movie - Louise FitzGerald and Melanie Williams 1) Everyone listens when I start to sing: gender and ventriloquism in the songs of Mamma Mia! - Malcolm Womack 2) Mamma Mia!'s female authorship - Melanie Williams 3) See that girl, watch that scene: notes on the persona and presence of Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! - Deborah Mellamphy 4) Knowing me, knowing you: reading Mamma Mia! as feminine object - Caroline Bainbridge 5) The power of sisterhood: Mamma Mia! as female friendship film - Betty Kaklamanidou 6) Embracing the embarrassment: Mamma Mia! and the pleasures of socially unrestrained performance - Ceri Hovland 7) The same old song?: exploring conceptions of the 'feelgood' film in the talk of Mamma Mia!'s older viewers - Kate Egan and Kerstin Leder 8) My my, how did I resist you? - I. Q. Hunter 9) Not too old for sex: Mamma Mia! and the 'older bird' chick flick - Claire Jenkins 10) Dancing queens indeed: when gay subtext is gayer than gay text - Georges-Claude Guilbert 11) The hero of my dreams: framing fatherhood in Mamma Mia! - Sarah Godfrey 12) What does your mother know?: Mamma Mia!'s mediation of lone motherhood - Louise FitzGerald 13) Afterword: When all is said and done - Sue Harper Bibliography Index