Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin
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Overview
Promoted as a ‘disturbingly perfect’ and ‘deeply shallow’ television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association. Yet, as this first full critical examination of Nip/Tuck shows, ironically the show is an examination of the American family and its many definitions, anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. It is also revealed as a glorious televisual melodrama, full of Gothic tropes and contemporary sensationalism and at the same time, a deeply misanthropic satire on the American dream with a sometimes highly problematic portrayal of women and minorities. The book also features an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene and an episode guide.
Promoted as a ‘disturbingly perfect’ and ‘deeply shallow’ television show and created by the mind behind Glee Ryan Murphy, Nip/Tuck has been among the most popular and controversial shows on television. The book also features an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene and an episode guide.
Introduction: Roz Kaveney
Ryan Murphy and Nip/Tuck: The Diminishing Returns of Misanthropy : Roz KaveneyReading Nip/Tuck as an Interrogation of Hegemonic Masculinity and Cosmetic Femininity: Jenn Brandt
Nip/Tuck and the literal Unconscious : Erica Galioto
‘I’m not doing this to be beautiful, Doctor’ - Representation of Gender Reassignment Surgery in Nip/Tuck : Marc Lafrance
Horrible Women: Abjection, Gender and Ageing in Nip/Tuck: Alison Peirse
Directing Nip/Tuck : Elodie Keen Interviewed: Mark Bundy
To live and die in front of a mirror - From Dandyism to Aesthetic Surgery : Isabel Clua Gines
Quality Exploitation: Nip/Tuck and the politics of provocation in FX dramas: Concepción Cascajosa Virino
A Double Concerto: Sean and Christian as single-bodied conjoined twins : Susan Santha Kerns
Telling Truth and Selling Lies; Ryan Murphy’s game of Gothic Consequences: Roz Kaveney
Brighter Discontent: Sean McNamara, his mid-life crisis and the failure of individualist transformation: Jennifer Stoy
Episode Guide
Appendix
Index
- Title: Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Under Your Skin
- Authors: Roz Kaveney, Jennifer Stoy
- Series: Reading Contemporary Television
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780857735447, 0857735446
- Resource ID: LLS:9780857735447
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:12:49Z
Roz Kaveney, is a journalist, reviewer and cultural commentator. Her books for Tauris include Reading the Vampire Slayer, From Alien to the Matrix, Superheroes and, edited with Jennifer Stoy, Battlestar Galactica. Jennifer Stoy is a graduate student in English Literature at the University of Santa Barbara.