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Considering Alan Ball
Author | : Thomas Fahy |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786489282 |
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film American Beauty and creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under, Alan Ball has consistently probed the cultural forces shaping gender, sexuality, and death in the United States. Through gritty dialogue and edgy humor, Ball centers much of his social critique on the illusory promises of the American Dream. For many of his characters, a belief in the American Dream--including idealized notions of the family, heterosexual norms, and the acceptance of prescribed gender roles--proves stifling and self-destructive. This is the first book to explore Ball's writings for theater, television and film, with an emphasis on his best-known work. These essays offer insight into both the captivating and problematic dimensions of Ball's work, while drawing connections among his diverse writings. An interview with Ball is included.
Alan Ball
Author | : Thomas Richard Fahy |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781617038778 |
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Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood
Television and the Embodied Viewer
Author | : Marsha F. Cassidy |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781315282633 |
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Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium’s capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer. Presenting a fresh approach to television studies, the book examines the sensate force of onscreen bodies and illustrates how TV’s multisensory appeal builds viewer empathy and animates meaning. The book draws extensively upon interpretive viewpoints in the humanities to shed light on a range of provocative television works, notably The Americans, Mad Men, Little Women: LA, and Six Feet Under, with emphasis on the dramatization of gender, disability, sex, childbearing, and death. Advocating a biocultural approach that takes into account the mind sciences, Cassidy argues that interpretive meanings, shaped within today’s dynamic cultural matrix, are amplified by somatic experience. At a time when questions of embodiment and affect are crossing disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of television, film, and media studies, both in the humanities and cognitive traditions.
Alan Ball
Author | : Thomas Fahy |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-08-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781617038785 |
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Alan Ball: Conversations features interviews that span Alan Ball’s entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award–winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award–winning television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York, and his work soon caught the attention of Hollywood television producers. After writing for the sitcoms Grace Under Fire and Cybill, Ball turned his attention to the screenplay that would become American Beauty. The critical success of this film opened up exciting possibilities for him in the realm of television. He created the critically acclaimed show Six Feet Under, and after the series finale, he decided to explore the issue of American bigotry toward the Middle East in his 2007 play All That I Will Ever Be and the film Towelhead, which he adapted and directed in the same year. Ball returned to television once again with the series True Blood—an adaptation of the humorous, entertaining, and erotic world of Charlaine Harris’s vampire novels. In 2012 Ball announced that he would step down as executive producer of True Blood, in part, to produce both a new television series and his latest screenplay, What’s the Matter with Margie?
American Book Publishing Record
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066180400 |
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The Writers Directory
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822037943214 |
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Histoire Russe
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : UOM:39015052942508 |
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