Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
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Editor: Kim AkassEditor: Janet McCabe
Foreword: Mark Lawson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-04
ISBN: 1850438099
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Book Reviews of Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
Book Review: SFU fun for the English Major in you
Summary: 4 Stars
Obviously only for the Six Feet Under enthusiast, Reading SFU does a good job of canvassing a number of interesting approaches to the show (examining specific characters, specific themes, etc.) and the essays are on a whole well-written and quite insightful.
A few small caveats - the essays were written at varying times and none were written after the series' final season. Given the rather significant plot points of the final season, I did often find myself wishing that the essays could have been re-visited, to address their points with the perspective of the series taken as a whole. Similarly, while the collection of essay approach allows the book to handle a number of different themes, I longed for a more cohesive view, and I think there still exists a potential for a volume written by one author to explore the show.
Finally, the book is very much composed of academic essays - things you would be writing as an English PHD student. As that implies, there's plenty of pretension and obscure points, but the good news is that it's well worth sorting through the vernacular and the show is substantive enough to support such an approach. If you don't enjoy reading that type of work, however, the book is certainly not for you.
Given the general lack of SFU literature out there, this book is the closest I've seen to engaging the series on the level it deserves.
Summary of Reading Six Feet Under: TV to Die for (Reading Contemporary Television)
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. Created by the Oscar winner Alan Ball (American Beauty), this innovative, controversial show charts difficult territory--from death, dying and bereavement, to female and gay sexualities, to family obligation and relationships--laying bare in the process an American cultural consciousness. This book examines such predominant themes as the dead body, magic realism and the grotesque, American cultural politics, family relationships, homosexuality, motherhood and more. A complete episode guide to the first four seasons is included.
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