Research Catalog

Title

Considering David Chase : essays on the Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, and the Sopranos / edited by Thomas Fahy.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Fahy, Thomas Richard.

Description

viii, 240 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"A compelling and innovative television writer, David Chase has created distinctive programs since the 1970s, each reflecting his edgy humor and psychological realism. These critical essays examine Chase's television writings, placing particular emphasis on how his past works have shaped and influenced the current cultural phenomenon of HBO's The Sopranos, and studying Chase's use of identity, community, and place in defining his on-screen characters. Topics explored include Chase's constructs of the urban L.A. environment in The Rockford Files, the portrayal of hybridized American archetypes in Northern Exposure, and the interpretation of sexual identity/masculinity in the Sopranos. An appendix containing complete episode guides for The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, and The Sopranos is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Rockford files (Television program)
• Sopranos (Television program)
• Northern exposure (Television program)
• Chase, David, 1945 August 22- > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Thomas Fahy -- From Paradise Cove to the Precinct: Mapping 'The Rockford Files' Urban (Tele)Visions / Victoria E. Johnson -- Driving in Circles: The Rockford Files / Robert E. Gross -- Going Native in Cicely, Alaska: American Archetypes and Hybridized Identity on Northern Exposure / Heather E. Epes -- "You Don't Have to Eat Every Dish of Rigatoni": Food, Music, and Identity in the Works of David Chase / Thomas Fahy -- "This Art's Kind of a Girly Thing": Art, Status, and Gender on The Sopranos and Northern Exposure / Kirstin Ringelberg -- Narrative Ergonomics and the Functions of Feminine Space in The Sopranos / Susann Cokal -- Crooked Reading: Postmodernism and The Sopranos / Ann C. Hall -- Wackos in the Wilderness vs. Getting Whacked in Newark: Dueling Family Models in Northern Exposure and The Sopranos / Mardia J. Bishop -- Defense-of-Family Acts: Queering Famiglia in The Sopranos / Lorena Russell -- Until the Fat Man Sings: Body Image, Masculinity, and Sexuality in The Sopranos / Keith B. Mitchell -- From Troy to 95 Lincoln Place, Irvington, N.J.: A Virgilian Reading of The Sopranos Underworld / Michael Calabrese -- Episode Listing for The Rockford Files -- Episode Listing for Northern Exposure -- Episode Listing for The Sopranos.

ISBN

• 9780786432844 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786432845 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007034047

OCLC

• ocn166255138
• 166255138
• SCSB-5381573

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries