The Television World of Pushing Daisies

Critical Essays on the Bryan Fuller Series
Herausgeber: Burger, Alissa

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Produktbeschreibung

Pushing Daisies was a unique network television show. This collection of 10 essays addresses the quirky, off-beat elements that made the show a popular success, as well as fodder for scholarly inquiry. Divided into three main sections, the essays address the themes of difference, the placement of the series within a larger philosophical context, and the role of gender on the show. A consideration of Pushing Daisies' unique style and aesthetics is a consistent source of interest across these international and interdisciplinary scholarly critiques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780786461486
• ISBN-10: 0786461489
• Artikelnr.: 32739575

Autorenporträt

Alissa Burger is an associate professor of English and Director of Student Success at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
ALISSA BURGER     
Part One: Television, Difference, and Pushing Daisies
1. Spectacular Collision/Collusion: Genre, "Quality," and Contemporary
Drama
LORNA JOWETT     
2. Pushing Daisies Away: Community Through Isolation
MATT DAUPHIN     
3. Often Invisible: Disability in Pushing Daisies
CHRISTINE GARBETT     
Part Two: Philosophy and Pushing Daisies
4. Consuming Grief and Eating
LAURA ANH WILLIAMS     
5. "Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny": Neuroses and Child's Play
ANN-GEE LEE     
6. "Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He's Done": On
Justice and Schadenfreude
CHRISTINE ANGELA KNOOP     
7. "It's a Destiny Thing-Enjoy It!": Free Will and Determinism in Bryan
Fuller's Series
PATRICK GILL     
Part Three: Gender and Pushing Daisies
8. The Queer, Quirky World of Pushing Daisies
DANIEL FARR     
9. Sweet Talk in The Pie Hole: Language, Intimacy, and Public Space
TARA K. PARMITER     
10. Fashion, Femininity, and the 1950s: Costume and Identity Negotiation in
Pushing Daisies
ALISSA BURGER     
About the Contributors     
Index