Beautiful TV : : The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal / / Greg M. Smith.
During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show Ally McBeal engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Why Ally?
- Aesthetics
- 1. Practical Music, Personal Fantasy: Creating a Community of Song in Ally McBeal
- 2. Getting into Ally’s Head: Special Effects, Imagination, and the Voice of Doubt
- Narration and Argument
- 3. Redeeming Ally: Seriality and the Character Network
- 4. “Is It Possible to Love Somebody Only Two Days?”: Guest Stars and Eccentricity
- 5. Victim of Love: Ally McBeal and the Politics of Protection
- Afterword
- Episode List
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index