CFP: Reading Nip/Tuck (10/31/06; collection)
Deadline for proposals: 31 October 2006
Deadline for papers : March 2007
Ryan Murphy's imaginative and controversial series,
Nip/Tuck, is one of a number of American television
shows that has taken on critical social and cultural
issues in the last decade. Nip/Tuck in particular has
examined the American dream, the mid-life crises of
the Baby Boom generation, sexuality, and queer
readings in extremely innovative ways. The "deeply
shallow" show has looked into the mirror of American
ideals of beauty, youth, and success and provided an
entertaining, chilling, and queer reading of them.
This volume, to be published by IB Tauris books and
edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy, seeks