The television world of Pushing daisies critical essays on the Bryan Fuller series /
"Pushing Daisies was one of the most successful network television shows in recent history. This collection of 10 essays addresses the off-beat elements that made the show a success. Divided into three sections, the essays address the themes of difference, placement of the series within a large...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Alissa Burger
- Television, difference, and Pushing Daisies. Spectacular collision/collusion : genre, "quality," and contemporary drama / Lorna Jowett
- Pushing daisies away : community through isolation / Matt Dauphin
- Often invisible : disability in Pushing daisies / Christine Garbett
- Philosophy and Pushing daisies. Consuming grief and eating pie / Laura Anh Williams
- "Neophobic Ned Needs Neoteny" : neuroses and child's play / Ann-Gee Lee
- "Here Lies Dwight, Here Lies His Gun. He Was Bad, Now He's Done" : on justice and Schadenfreude / Christine Angela Knoop
- "It's a destiny thing-enjoy it!" : free will and determinism in Bryan Fuller's series / Patrick Gill
- Gender and Pushing daisies. The queer, quirky world of Pushing daisies / Daniel Farr
- Sweet talk in The pie hole : language, intimacy, and public space / Tara K. Parmiter
- Fashion, femininity, and the 1950s : costume and identity negotiation in Pushing daisies / Alissa Burger.