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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSmith, Greg M.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBeautiful TV :
_bThe Art and Argument of Ally McBeal /
_cGreg M. Smith.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (285 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: Why Ally? --
_tAesthetics --
_t1. Practical Music, Personal Fantasy: Creating a Community of Song in Ally McBeal --
_t2. Getting into Ally’s Head: Special Effects, Imagination, and the Voice of Doubt --
_tNarration and Argument --
_t3. Redeeming Ally: Seriality and the Character Network --
_t4. “Is It Possible to Love Somebody Only Two Days?”: Guest Stars and Eccentricity --
_t5. Victim of Love: Ally McBeal and the Politics of Protection --
_tAfterword --
_tEpisode List --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aDuring 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 should tolerate; and what utility fantasy has in the pragmatic world. In addition to these social concerns, however, Ally McBeal stood out for being well-constructed, narratively complex, and stylistically rich—in short, beautiful TV. Starting from the premise that much of television today is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, Greg M. Smith analyzes Ally McBeal in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction. He explores how Ally's innovative use of music, special effects, fantasy sequences, voiceovers, and flashbacks structures a distinctive fictional universe, while it also opens up new possibilities for televisual expression. Smith also discusses the complex narrative strategies that Ally's creator David E. Kelley used to develop a long-running storyline and shows how these serial narrative practices can help us understand a wide range of prime-time TV serials. By taking seriously the art and argument of Ally McBeal, Beautiful TV conclusively demonstrates that aesthetic and narrative analysis is an indispensable key for unlocking the richness of contemporary television.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aTelevision
_xAesthetics.
650 7 _aPERFORMING ARTS / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/716421
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292795082
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