Mamma Mia! The Movie

Louise FitzGerald is Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Brighton. Melanie Williams is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is co-editor of British Women's Cinema (2009).

• Notes on contributorsAcknowledgementsFacing our Waterloo: evaluating Mamma Mia! The Movie - Louise FitzGerald and Melanie Williams1) Everyone listens when I start to sing: gender and ventriloquism in the songs of Mamma Mia! - Malcolm Womack2) Mamma Mia!’s female authorship - Melanie Williams3) See that girl, watch that scene: notes on the persona and presence of Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! - Deborah Mellamphy4) Knowing me, knowing you: reading Mamma Mia! as feminine object - Caroline Bainbridge5) The power of sisterhood: Mamma Mia! as female friendship film - Betty Kaklamanidou6) Embracing the embarrassment: Mamma Mia! and the pleasures of socially unrestrained performance - Ceri Hovland7) The same old song?: exploring conceptions of the ‘feelgood’ film in the talk of Mamma Mia!’s older viewers - Kate Egan and Kerstin Leder8) My my, how did I resist you? - I. Q. Hunter9) Not too old for sex: Mamma Mia! and the ‘older bird’ chick flick - Claire Jenkins10) Dancing queens indeed: when gay subtext is gayer than gay text - Georges-Claude Guilbert11) The hero of my dreams: framing fatherhood in Mamma Mia! - Sarah Godfrey12) What does your mother know?: Mamma Mia!’s mediation of lone motherhood - Louise FitzGerald13) Afterword: When all is said and done - Sue HarperBibliographyIndex