A state of Arrested development
Subtitle: critical essays on the innovative television comedy
By: Edited by Kristin M. Barton ; foreword by Mitchell Hurwitz
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780786479917; 9781476619385
Subjects: Arrested development (Television program)
Description: "This collection of new essays explores how the show addressed issues like wealth and poverty, race, environmentalism and family relationships. Focusing on the show's iconic characters, the essays consider Arrested Development as it stands next such works of fiction as Hamlet, The Godfather and the writings of Kafka"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kristin M. Barton; title: Life in Newport Beach. Living in sudden valley: the Bluth family and the fault lines of ideology / Edwin Demper; title: The meaning of charity: depictions of corruption and altruism / Kristin M. Distel; title: Lindsay Bluth and the politics of sincerity: environmental rhetoric, eco-consciousness and social performance / Elizabeth Lowry; title: It ain't easy being race-sensitive: things whitey and African-Americany aren't ready to hear / James Rocha; title: The ways of the secular flesh: destabilizing the heteronormative and negotiating non-monolithic sexualities / Navid Sabet; title: Deconstructing the Bluths. "I'm a monster!": the monstrous and the comedic / Jonah Ford; title: Narrative and the narrator in the politics of memory / Dustin Freeley; title: Families with low self esteem: the fønke dynamic / Bethany Yates Poston and Crisman Richards; title: "Obviously this blue part here is the land": the Bluths, decadence and logic adrift / Joseph S. Walker; title: Comparative developments. Hamlet's ghost meme: accidental Shakespeare, repetition compulsion and roofie circles / Kristin N. Denslow; title: The family business: Bluths, Corleones and the American dream / Kristin M. Bbarton; title: The Kafkaesque in the trial of George Bluth / Matthew Gannon; title: It's not tv, it's Arrested development; title: "I swore I'd not go reality": the Bluths through the lens of genre / Patrick Gill; title: Saving our Bluths: why the smartest comedy on television struggled to find an audience / Kristin M. Barton; title: "Chalk one up for the internet: it has killed Arrested development": the series' revival, binge watching and fan/critic antagonism / Michael Graves.