The essential Sopranos reader
By: edited by David Lavery, Douglas L. Howard, and Paul Levinson ; foreword by David Bianculli
Series: Essential readers in contemporary media and culture
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780813130125; 9780813130149
Subjects: Sopranos (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Sopranos, David Chase, HBO, and television. The Sopranos as tipping point in the second coming of HBO / Gary R. Edgerton; title: From made men to Mad men: what Matthew Weiner learned from David Chase / David Lavery; title: The Sopranos: if nothing Is real, you have overpaid for your carpet / Martha P. Nochimson; title: Author(iz)ing Chase / Robin Nelson; title: Characters. "Half a wiseguy": Paulie Walnuts, meet Tom Stoppard / Paul Wright; title: Christopher, Osama, and A.J.: contemporary narcissism and terrorism in The Sopranos / Jason Jacobs; title: "When it comes to daughters, all bets are off": the seductive father-daughter relationship of Tony and Meadow Soprano / Marisa Carroll; title: Gendering The Sopranos. "Blabbermouth cunts", or, speaking in tongues: narrative crises for women in The Sopranos and feminist dilemmas / Kim Akass and Janet McCabe; title: Honoring the social compact: the last temptation of Melfi / Nancy McGuire Roche; title: A "finook" in the crew: Vito Spatafore, The Sopranos, and the queering of the Mafia genre / George De Stefano; title: Cinematic Concerns. The producers: the dangers of filmmaking in The Sopranos / Cameron Golden; title: Comfortably numb? The Sopranos, new brutalism, and the last temptation of Chris / Glen Creeber; title: - dreams and therapy. fishes and football coaches: the narrative necessity of dreams in the sopranos / Cynthia Burkhead; title: From here to InFinnerty: Tony Soprano and the American Way / Terri Carney; title: "Whatever Happened to Stop and Smell the Roses?": The Sopranos as anti-therapeutic narrative / David Pattie; title: Ethnic and Social Concerns. Mangia Mafia! food, punishment, and cultural identity in The Sopranos / Michael M. Grynbaum; title: The guinea as tragic hero: the complex representation of Italian Americans in The Sopranos / Frank P. Tomasulo; title: "All Caucasians look alike": dreams of whiteness at the end of The Sopranos / Christopher Kocela; title: Images of justice and The Sopranos. Representations of law and justice in The Sopranos: an introduction / Barbara Villez; title: Lawyer-client relations as seen in The Sopranos / James M. Keneally; title: "This isn't a negotiation": "getting to yes" with Tony Soprano / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan; title: The price of stereotype: the representation of the Mafia in Italy and the United States in The Sopranos / Antonio Ingroia; title: The image of justice in The Sopranos / Fabio Licata; title: Narrative and intertextuality. "Funny about God, and fate, and shit like that": the imminent unexpected in The Sopranos / Robert Piluso; title: The Sopranos and history / Albert Auster; title: Silence in The Sopranos / Steven Peacock; title: Cut to black: the finale and the Sopranos legacy. "What's different between you and me": Carmela, the audience, and the end / Joseph S. Walker; title: Unpredictable but inevitable: that last scene /; title: Maurice yacowar; title: no justice for all: the fbi, cut to black, and david chase's final hit / Douglas L. Howard; title: The Sopranos and the closure junkies / Paul Levinson; title: Acknowledgments; title: Appendix a: characters; title: Appendix b: episode guide.