Nip/Tuck : Television that Gets under Your Skin.
Title:
Nip/Tuck : Television that Gets under Your Skin.
Author:
Kaveney, Roz.
ISBN:
9780857720405
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Series:
Reading Contemporary Television
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- acknowledgements -- notes on contributors -- introduction -- Roz Kaveney -- 1. Ryan Murphy and nip/tuck: the diminishing returns of misanthropy -- Roz Kaveney -- 2. reading nip/tuck as interrogation of hegemonic masculinity and cosmetic femininity -- Jenn Brandt -- 3. nip/tuck and the literal unconscious -- Erica D. Galioto -- 4. horrible women: abjection, gender and ageing in nip/tuck -- Alison Peirse -- 5. 'A Keene Sense of Direction': an interview with nip/tuck director Elodie Keene -- Mark W. Bundy -- 6. to live and die in front of a mirror: from dandyism to aesthetic surgery -- Isabel Clua Gines -- 7. quality exploitation: nip/tuck and the politics of provocation in FX dramas -- Concepcion Cascajosa Virino -- 8. a double concerto: Sean and Christian as single-bodied conjoined twins -- Susan Santha Kerns -- 9. telling truth and selling lies: Ryan Murphy's game of Gothic consequences -- Roz Kaveney -- 10. brighter discontent: Sean McNamara, his mid-life crisis and the failure of individualist transformation -- Jennifer Stoy -- nup/tuck episode guide -- hearts and scalpels -- Index.
Abstract:
Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association. Yet, as this first full critical examination of Nip/Tuck shows, ironically the show is an examination of the American family and its many definitions, anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. It is also revealed as a glorious televisual melodrama, full of Gothic tropes and contemporary sensationalism and at the same time, a deeply misanthropic satire on the American dream with a sometimes highly problematic portrayal of women and minorities. The book also features an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene and an episode guide.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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