Research Catalog

Title

This thing of ours : investigating the Sopranos / edited by David Lavery.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press ; London : Wallflower Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lavery, David, 1949-

Description

xviii, 285 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Sopranos (Television program)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index.

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.

Call Number

MWGT 03-4059

ISBN

• 0231127804 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231127812 (paper : alk. paper)
• 1903364450 (Wallflower : hbk)
• 1903364442 (Wallflower : pbk)

LCCN

2002073962

OCLC

50166903

Title

This thing of ours : investigating the Sopranos / edited by David Lavery.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press ; London : Wallflower Press, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index.

Added Author

Lavery, David, 1949-

Research Call Number

MWGT 03-4059