Reading Six Feet Under :TV To Die For

Publication subTitle :TV To Die For

Author: Akass> Kim  

Publisher: I.B.Tauris‎

Publication year: 2005

E-ISBN: 9780857716163

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781850438090

Subject: J9 Movies, TV

Keyword: 电影、电视艺术

Language: ENG

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Description

Praised for its unabashed portrait of the 'death care' industry, HBO's Six Feet Under is less about the business of death than the art of living well. Created by Alan Ball (American Beauty) this innovative, controversial show charts difficult territory, from death, dying and bereavement, to female and gay sexualities, laying bare in the process an American cultural consciousness. Six Feet Under first aired among HBO's 'must-see' Sunday night line-up in 2001 and went on to establish itself as a critical and ratings winner. This book on the groundbreaking show examines such themes as the modern sacred and profane, pornography and the dead body, magic realism and the grotesque, American cultural politics, family relationships, homosexuality, the church and gay politics, motherhood and teenage rebellion. Entertaining and enlightening in equal measure, it contains an interview with composer Rick Marvin, an essay by Thomas Lynch whose books inspired the show and a complete episode guide to the first four series of Six Feet Under.

Chapter

Introduction

Part I; Memento Mori: spectacle, the specular and observing the dead

One: It's not television, it's magic realism

Two: Exquisite corpse

Three: Death, liminality and transformation in Six Feet Under

Four: Sex, Shocks and Stiffs

Part 2 - Mourning and Melancholia

Five: American Gothic

Six: Buried Lives

Seven: Politics, tragedy and Six Feet Under

eight: Americanitis

Part 3 - Post-patriarchal dilemmas (I)

Nine: Mother knows best

Ten: 'Like, whatever'

Eleven: Desperately seeking Brenda

Part 4 - Post-patriarchal dilemmas (II)

Twelve: Fisher's sons

Thirteen: Queering the Church

Fourteen: Revisiting the closet

Part 5 - Reflections: music and melancholia

Fifteen: I'm dead, wow, cool

Sixteen: Playing in the deep end of the pool

Episode guide

Film and TV Guide

Bibliography

Index

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