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Nip/tuck : television that gets under your skin

Title: Nip/tuck : television that gets under your skin / edited by Roz Kaveney, Jennifer Stoy.
Publication: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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xvii, 227 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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."--Publisher.

Series Statement

Reading contemporary television

Uniform Title

Reading contemporary television.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ryan Murphy and nip/tuck : the diminishing returns of misanthropy / Roz Kaveney -- Reading nip/tuck as an interrogation of hegemonic masculinity and cosmetic femininity / Jenn Brandt -- nip/tuck and the literal unconscious / Erica D. Galioto -- Horrible Women : abjection, gender and ageing in nip/tuck / Alison Peirse -- 'A Keene sense of direction' : an interview with nip/tuck director Elodie Keene / Mark W. Bundy -- To live and die in front of a mirror : from dandyism to aesthetic surgery / Isabel Clúa Ginés -- 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 -- Appendices : A. nip/tuck episode guide ; B. Hearts and scalpels.

Call Number

MWGT 13-2408

ISBN

9781845118624 (pbk.)
1845118626 (pbk.)

OCLC

747915514

Title

Nip/tuck : television that gets under your skin / edited by Roz Kaveney, Jennifer Stoy.

Imprint

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Series

Reading contemporary television

Reading contemporary television.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kaveney, Roz.

Stoy, Jennifer.

Research Call Number

MWGT 13-2408

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