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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Lavery |
| ISBN: | 0231127804 9780231127806 0231127812 9780231127813 1903364450 9781903364451 1903364442 9781903364444 |
| OCLC Number: | 50166903 |
| Description: | xviii, 285 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | "Coming heavy": the significance of The Sopranos / David Lavery -- Our mobsters, ourselves / Ellen Willis -- The Sopranos: the gangster redux / Albert Auster -- David Chase, The Sopranos, and television creativity / David Lavery and Robert J. Thompson -- Naked bodies, three showings a week, and no commercials: The Sopranos as a nuts-and-bolts triumph of non-network TV / Paul Levinson -- Way north of New Jersey: a Canadian experience of The Sopranos / Dawn Elizabeth B. Johnston -- The Sopranos as HBO brand equity: the art of commerce in the age of digital reproduction / Mark C. Rogers, Michael Epstein, and Jimmie L. Reeves -- "I dread you"?: married to the mob in The godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos / Cindy Donatelli and Sharon Alward -- "Fat fuck! Why don't you take a look in the mirror?": weight, body image, and masculinity in The Sopranos / Avi Santo -- One for the boys? The Sopranos and its male British audience / Joanne Lacey -- "Cunnilingus and psychiatry have brought us to this": Livia and the logic of false hoods in the first season of The Sopranos / Joseph S. Walker -- "TV ruined the movies": television, Tarantino, and the intimate world of The Sopranos / Glen Creeber -- Mobbed up: The Sopranos and the modern gangster film / David Pattie -- Beyond the bada bing!: negotiating female narrative authority in The Sopranos / Kim Akass and Janet McCabe -- Wiseguy opera: music for Sopranos / Kevin Fellezs -- No(rth Jersey) sense of place: the cultural geography (and media ecology) of The Sopranos / Lance Strate -- "Soprano-speak": language and silence in HBO's The Sopranos / Douglas L. Howard -- The eighteenth brumaire of Tony Soprano / Steven Hayward and Andrew Biro -- "The brutality of meat and the abruptness of seafood": food, violence, and family in The Sopranos / Sara Lewis Dunne. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Lavery. |
Abstract:
As a work of popular culture, an innovative television series and a media phenomenon, 'The Sopranos' has made an impact throughout the world. This text investigates both the wide appeal and controversial reception of this highly-debated drama.
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