Introduction / Kristin M. Barton
Life in Newport Beach. Living in sudden valley: the Bluth family and the fault lines of ideology / Edwin Demper
The meaning of charity: depictions of corruption and altruism / Kristin M. Distel
Lindsay Bluth and the politics of sincerity: environmental rhetoric, eco-consciousness and social performance / Elizabeth Lowry
It ain't easy being race-sensitive: things whitey and African-Americany aren't ready to hear / James Rocha
The ways of the secular flesh: destabilizing the heteronormative and negotiating non-monolithic sexualities / Navid Sabet
Deconstructing the Bluths. "I'm a monster!": the monstrous and the comedic / Jonah Ford
Narrative and the narrator in the politics of memory / Dustin Freeley
Families with low self esteem: the fønke dynamic / Bethany Yates Poston and Crisman Richards
"Obviously this blue part here is the land": the Bluths, decadence and logic adrift / Joseph S. Walker
Comparative developments. Hamlet's ghost meme: accidental Shakespeare, repetition compulsion and roofie circles / Kristin N. Denslow
The family business: Bluths, Corleones and the American dream / Kristin M. Bbarton
The Kafkaesque in the trial of George Bluth / Matthew Gannon
It's not tv, it's Arrested development
"I swore I'd not go reality": the Bluths through the lens of genre / Patrick Gill
Saving our Bluths: why the smartest comedy on television struggled to find an audience / Kristin M. Barton
"Chalk one up for the internet: it has killed Arrested development": the series' revival, binge watching and fan/critic antagonism / Michael Graves.
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A state of Arrested development : critical essays on the innovative television comedy. ISBN 9780786479917. Published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
