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Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film American Beauty and creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under , Alan Ball has consistently probed the cultural forces shaping gender, sexuality, and…
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Tracy Letts has emerged as one of the greatest playwrights of the twenty-first century. Understanding Tracy Letts, the first book dedicated to his writing, is an introduction to his plays…
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Truman Capote - along with his most famous works In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s - continues to have a powerful hold over the popular imagination. Thomas Fahy provides…
Provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author’s work. By reading Capote’s work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his…
Scholars from various fields examine the thematic content and rhetorical strategy of Aaron Sorkin’s writing. Eleven essayists explore the subtle, pervasive and often contradictory messages woven throughout Sorkin’s work, and…
A collection of essays that examine Chase’s television writings, emphasising on how his past works have shaped and influenced the cultural phenomenon of HBO’s The Sopranos . This book helps…
Features original interviews with the writers of today’s most frightening and fascinating shows. The Writing Dead features thought-provoking, never-before-published interviews with the top writers and gives the creators an opportunity…
In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America’s preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror.
Features interviews that span Alan Ball’s entire career and include detailed observations and insights into his Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy Award-winning television shows Six Feet Under and…
Features original interviews with the writers of today’s most frightening and fascinating shows. The Writing Dead features thought-provoking, never-before-published interviews with these top writers and gives the creators an opportunity…
Professor Thomas Fahy
Emma Montgomery has been experiencing nightmares of gruesome murders. In fact, all of the students in Dr. Beecher’s secret society have been having terrible dreams and sleepwalking. Now, as their…
Beginning with an essay by Harold Pinter, this text examines social, gendered, ethnic and cultural problems of incarceration explored through contemporary theatre. The essays discuss a range of topics related…
Thomas Richard Fahy
Haunted by nightmares and the memory of a vicious attack, insomniac Samantha Ranvali seeks a cure for her sleeplessness in an experimental study, but when a fellow participant is found…
The Philosophy of Horror celebrates the strange, compelling, and disturbing elements of horror, drawing on interpretive approaches such as feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, and psychoanalytic criticism.
The volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual…
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual…