Ball, Alan 1957-

Overview

Works:	193 works in 342 publications in 7 languages and 14,399 library holdings
Genres:	Motion picture plays
Roles:	Creator, Author of screenplay, Director, Scenarist, Conceptor
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4575

Publication Timeline

1990 |

|2020

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Publications about Alan Ball

Publications by Alan Ball

Most widely held works about Alan Ball

Considering Alan Ball : essays on sexuality, death, and America in the television and film writings ( Book )

Most widely held works by Alan Ball

American beauty ( Visual )
5 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in English and held by 2,076 libraries worldwide
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.

True blood. The complete first season ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 1,026 libraries worldwide
The small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana boasts a wide array of colorful locals. Sookie Stackhouse is a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds. Bill Compton is a 173 year-old vampire who's just moved back to town. Sookie's brother Jason is a ladies' man who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Tough-as-nails Tara is Sookie's loyal best friend and Sam is the owner of Merlotte's who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie to himself. Lafayette is a man about town who's always cooking up something illicit.

True blood. The complete second season ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 904 libraries worldwide
Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.

Six feet under. The complete first season ( Visual )
7 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 856 libraries worldwide
Includes all 13 episodes of the first season. A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.

Six feet under. The complete second season ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 757 libraries worldwide
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.

True blood. The complete third season ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 690 libraries worldwide
The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.

Six feet under. The complete fifth season ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 680 libraries worldwide
Follows the dysfunctional Fisher family, including widow Ruth, sons Nate and David, baby sister Claire, and the ghost of patriarch Nathaniel, as they run the family funeral parlor in Pasadena and deal with the cycle of life--birth, death, and rebirth.

Six feet under. The complete third season ( Visual )
8 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 678 libraries worldwide
For the Fishers, the more things stay the same, the more they change. Get ready to break new emotional ground with the complete third season.

Six feet under. The complete fourth season ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 629 libraries worldwide
There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David, and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one.

American beauty ( Visual )
34 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 580 libraries worldwide
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.

American beauty by Alan Ball ( Book )
4 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 554 libraries worldwide

Towelhead ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 473 libraries worldwide
Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.

American beauty : the shooting script by Alan Ball ( Book )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 437 libraries worldwide

Five women wearing the same dress by Alan Ball ( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 206 libraries worldwide

True blood. Volume 1, All together now by Mariah Huehner ( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide
Sookie and the others are trapped in Merlotte's by a vengeful creature who feeds off the miserable shame of others, and none will survive unless all their dirty little secrets are revealed.

Six feet under : better living through death ( Book )
3 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 140 libraries worldwide

All that I will ever be by Alan Ball ( Book )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 112 libraries worldwide
"A darkly funny tale of cultural provocation and our eternal search for belonging as seen through the relationship of two young men in contemporary Los Angeles: Dwight, a privileged native Angeleno, and Omar, an enigmatic immigrant from the Middle East."--P. [4] of cover.

All together now by David Tischman ( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 85 libraries worldwide

Six feet under. The complete first season, disc 1, episodes 1-3 ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 76 libraries worldwide
A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home and how they address the family business and the troubles in their personal lives.

Six feet under. The complete fifth season, [disc 2 ( Visual )
11 editions published between 2001 and 2006 in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide
One of TV's most acclaimed series concludes its groundbreaking five season run. Each of the main characters will come to embrace the cycle of life - birth, death and rebirth - in ways that are both unique and interconnected.