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

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