Eliot Borenstein

HBO's The Leftovers (eBook, ePUB)

Mourning and Melancholy on Premium Cable

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book unpacks and analyzes the central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of family and home in HBO's The Leftovers to demonstrate the key role it played in the development of early twenty-first-century television. Eliot Borenstein argues that the story of The Leftovers is the most sustained exploration of loss ever to appear on American television and subverts the expectations of viewers who look to prestige dramas as puzzles to solve by providing no clear answers the mysteries most central to the show's plot. Instead, Borenstein posits, the series endeavors to provide more nuanced and realistic portrayals of the melancholy that occurs when people's lives are unmoored, leavening an inherently depressing experience with absurdity and moments of grace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666947588
• Artikelnr.: 68979474

Autorenporträt

Eliot Borenstein is professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and vice chancellor and vice provost for global programs at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Lessons of Lost, or, Serialization and Its Discontents
Chapter Two: Suburban Rapture: From Book to Series
Chapter Three: Melancholy, Baby
Chapter Four: The Shaman of Melancholia
Chapter Five: No Child Left Behind
Chapter Six: Giving Up Baby
Chapter Seven: Killing the Apocalypse
Chapter Eight: The Wrong Kevin
Chapter Nine: Letting the Mystery Be