Research Catalog

Title

Reading the Sopranos : hit TV from HBO / edited by David Lavery.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Lavery, David, 1949-

Description

xii, 260 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This is the definitive, most comprehensive, serious, entertaining book on 'The Sopranos', edited by the top man on contemporary US television.

Series Statement

Reading contemporary television

Uniform Title

Reading contemporary television.

Subject

• Sopranos (Television program)
• Mafia > United States > Characters and characteristics in television programs
• Television programs > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Can this be the end of Tony Soprano? / David Lavery -- Surviving "the hit" : will The Sopranos still sing for HBO? / Michael M. Epstein, Jimmie L. Reeves, and Mark C. Rogers -- Homeward bound : those Sopranos titles come heavy / David Johansson -- What has Carmela ever done for feminism? Carmela Soprano and the post-feminist dilemma / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Disciplining the masculine : the disruptive power of Janice Soprano / Valerie Palmer-Mehta -- Eve of destruction : Dr. Melfi as reader of The Sopranos / Bruce Plourde -- Bloodlust for the common man : the Sopranos confronts its volatile American audience / Jessica Baldanzi -- "You're Annette Bening?" Dreams and Hollywood as subtext in The Sopranos / Cameron Golden -- From Columbus to Gary Cooper : mourning the lost white father in The Sopranos / Christopher Kocela -- Gangstas, divas, and breaking Tony's balls : musical reference in The Sopranos / Chris Neal -- Show business or dirty business? The theatrics of Mafia narrative and empathy for the last mob boss standing in The Sopranos / Gwyn Symonds -- Aesthetics and ammunition : art imitating life, life imitating art in The Sopranos / Franco Ricci -- Tasting Brylcreem : law, disorder, and the FBI in The Sopranos / Douglas L. Howard -- The prince of North Jersey / Dean DeFino -- "Black guys, my ass" : uncovering the queerness of racism in The Sopranos / Brian Gibson.

ISBN

• 1845111214 (pbk.)
• 9781845111212

OCLC

62178409

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library