Girl Reporter Gender, Journalism, and the

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.

Howard Good (B.A., Bard College; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction; or, Close Cover before Striking

1

(4)

1 Why Are There Newspaper Films?

5

(1)

2 Girl Reporter

6

(4)

3 B Is for

10

(2)

4 What's in a Name?

12

(3)

5 One Discourse among Many and All the Same

15

(5)

6 The Yellow-Haired Peril

20

(3)

7 Star Light, Star Bright

23

(4)

8 At the Wax Museum

27

(3)

9 Sisters

30

(18)

10 Dream Job

48

(4)

11 Black Bart

52

(4)

12 As the World Turns (to Crap)

56

(3)

13 Not-So-Great Expectations

59

(7)

14 The Man-Tailored Woman

66

(3)

15 Legalese

69

(4)

16 Love Is Murder

73

(7)

17 The Kiss

80

(5)

18 Criminal Behavior

85

(3)

19 Accept No Substitutes

88

(4)

20 Unequal Partners

92

(7)

21 Anything for a Story

99

(10)

22 In Black and White

109

(3)

23 Flameout

112

(3)

24 The Ghost in the Machine

115

(3)

25 Cineplexity

118

(21)

Notes

139

(26)

Filmography of Torchy Blane Series

165

(6)

Supplemental Filmography

171

(8)

Selected Bibliography

179

(8)

Index

187

(4)

About the Author

191

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