Alan Ball : conversations / edited by Thomas Fahy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fahy, Thomas Richard, editor.

Series:

Television conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ball, Alan, 1957---Interviews.

Ball, Alan.

Ball, Alan, 1957-.

Television writers--United States--Interviews.

Television writers.

Screenwriters--United States--Interviews.

Screenwriters.

United States.

Dramatists, American--20th century--Interviews.

Dramatists, American.

Genre:

Interviews.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 137 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

Summary:

Alan Ball: Conversations 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 True Blood. Ball began his career as a playwright in New York, and his work soon caught the attention of Hollywood television producers. After writing for the sitcoms Grace Under Fire and Cybill, Ball turned his attention to the screenplay that would become American Beauty. The critical success of this film opened up exciting possibilities for him in the realm of television. He created the critically acclaimed show Six Feet Under, and after the series finale, he decided to explore the issue of American bigotry toward the Middle East in his 2007 play, All That I Will Ever Be and the film Towelhead, which he adapted and directed in the same year. Ball returned to television once again with the series True Blood-an adaptation of the humorous, entertaining, and erotic world of Charlaine Harris's vampire novels. In 2012 Ball announced that he would step down as executive producer of True Blood, in part, to produce both a new television series and his latest screenplay, What's the Matter with Margie? Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

American beauty: an interview with Alan Ball / Peter N. Chumo II (2000)

American beauty screenwriter Alan Ball conducts case study at the IFP/West Screenwriters Conference / Susan Royal (2000)

Gaywatch: Alan Ball goes Six feet under / Christine Champagne (2001)

Big mind, small screen: Six feet under's Alan Ball / Jeff Greenwald (2004)

Alan Ball: Six feet under / Anna Carugati (2004)

Considering Alan Ball: an interview / Thomas Fahy (2005)

Fresh air interview with Alan Ball: a Six feet under postmortem / Terry Gross (2005)

Sexual politics and awakenings in Towelhead / Cynthia Lucia (2008)

A big messy place: Alan Ball on Towelhead / K. J. Doughton (2008)

Fresh Air interview with Alan Ball: talking True blood and Towelhead / Terry Gross (2008)

Life and death, drama and Humor, join hands / Kinney Littlefield (2011)

Excerpt from interview with Alan Ball: True blood and Beyond / Nancy Harrington (2011)

Alan Ball in Conversation with Alan Brough / Alan Brough.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Alan Ball

ISBN:

9781617038778

1617038776

OCLC:

837957600