Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin

ISBN-13: 9781845118624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Roz Kaveney

Opis

Promoted as a *disturbingly perfect* and *deeply shallow* television show and created by the mind behind Glee, Ryan Murphy, Nip/Tuck has been among the most popular and controversial shows on television. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy and Sean McNamara won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association. Yet, as this first critical celebration of Nip/Tuck reveals, the show is also an examination of the American family, the anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. The book is completed with an extensive episode guide and includes an interview with Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene.

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Introduction: Roz Kaveney Ryan Murphy and Nip/Tuck: The Diminishing Returns of Misanthropy : Roz KaveneyReading Nip/Tuck as an Interrogation of Hegemonic Masculinity and Cosmetic Femininity: Jenn Brandt Nip/Tuck and the literal Unconscious : Erica Galioto ‘I’m not doing this to be beautiful, Doctor’ - Representation of Gender Reassignment Surgery in Nip/Tuck : Marc Lafrance Horrible Women: Abjection, Gender and Ageing in Nip/Tuck: Alison Peirse Directing Nip/Tuck : Elodie Keen Interviewed: Mark Bundy To live and die in front of a mirror - From Dandyism to Aesthetic Surgery : Isabel Clua Gines Quality Exploitation: Nip/Tuck and the politics of provocation in FX dramas: Concepción Cascajosa Virino A Double Concerto: Sean and Christian as single-bodied conjoined twins : Susan Santha Kerns Telling Truth and Selling Lies; Ryan Murphy’s game of Gothic Consequences: Roz Kaveney Brighter Discontent: Sean McNamara, his mid-life crisis and the failure of individualist transformation: Jennifer Stoy Episode Guide Appendix Index