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Beautiful TV Beautiful TV The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal greg m. smith University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2007 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2007 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Greg M. Beautiful TV : the art and argument of Ally McBeal / Greg M. Smith. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71642-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-292-71642-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71643-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-292-71643-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ally McBeal (Television program) 2. Television--Aesthetics. I. Title. PN1992.77.A533S65 2007 791.45'72—dc22 2006033327 For Mary, who made my heart go “boom” THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Introduction: Why Ally? 1 Aesthetics 1. Practical Music, Personal Fantasy: Creating a Community of Song in Ally McBeal 19 2. Getting into Ally’s Head: Special Effects, Imagination, and the Voice of Doubt 47 Narration and Argument 3. Redeeming Ally: Seriality and the Character Network 73 4. “Is It Possible to Love Somebody Only Two Days?”: Guest Stars and Eccentricity 145 5. Victim of Love: Ally McBeal and the Politics of Protection 177 Afterword 193 Episode List 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 253 Index 267 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Beautiful TV

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During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show "Ally McBeal" engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society

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During its five-year run from 1997 to 2002, the popular TV show "Ally McBeal" engaged viewers in debates over what it means to be a woman or a man in the modern workplace; how romance factors into the therapeutic understanding of relationships; what value eccentricity has and how much oddity society

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