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Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
Kim (Ed) Akass
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Description for Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
Paperback. 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. It was created by Alan Ball and centres on a Pasadena undertakers run by two brothers with their mother and teenage sister making up the dysfunctional family quartet. Editor(s): Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet. Series: Reading Contemporary Television. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322.
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. It was created by Alan Ball ('American Beauty') and centres on a Pasadena undertakers run by two brothers, with their mom and teenage sister making up the dysfunctional family quarter. 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, going on to establish ... Read more
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. It was created by Alan Ball ('American Beauty') and centres on a Pasadena undertakers run by two brothers, with their mom and teenage sister making up the dysfunctional family quarter. 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, going on to establish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Reading Contemporary Television
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850438090
SKU
V9781850438090
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About Kim (Ed) Akass
Janet McCabe is Lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College, Dublin Kim Akass is a writer and editor; she is, with Janet McCabe, Series Editor of Tauris' Reading Contemporary Television Series and is on the Editorial Board of the Critical Studies in Television journal. She is co-editor, with Janet McCabe, of Reading 'Sex and the City', ... Read more
Reviews for Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
'This is the essential appeal of the book - it manages to combine the serious with the comic and ironic, just as its subject series does.' - Media Education Journal