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This thing of ours : investigating the Sopranos
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This thing of ours : investigating the Sopranos

Author: David Lavery
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ; London : Wallflower Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
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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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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