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This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of the family and home.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

This book demonstrates the key role The Leftovers played in the development of early twenty-first-century television, while also unpacking its central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of the family and home.

Product details

• Authors: Eliot Borenstein, Borenstein Eliot
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666947571
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-757-1
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Media Studies, RELIGION / General, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General