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Reading the Sopranos

Reading the Sopranos


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Bada bing! What drama. The most important work of American popular culture in fifty years is how the New York Times describes The Sopranos. Critically-acclaimed, award-winning, and the most watched show on HBO, the mobster drama swirls around the middle-aged Mafioso, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini). Having to negotiate two families, both at home and at work, is it any wonder he is suffering an epic midlife crisis involving Prozac and visits to a therapist? The series quickly became compulsory watching when it first screened back in 1999 and has since gone on to become an international hit and subject of intense discussion. Coinciding with the sixth and penultimate series, Reading The Sopranos offers a timely response to one of the most talked about shows on television. This book explores how The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes about television itself. Contributors present fresh perspectives on psychotherapy and dreams; racism and the Italian-American community; Carmela and post-feminism; The Sopranos as an HBO brand; racism; the full cast of 'gangsters Italianate' that people Sopranos' New Jersey; and much more.
Reading The Sopranos also features a timeline, character list and complete episode guide, as well as editor David Lavery's up to date 'Intertextual Moments and Allusions on The Sopranos'.


About the Author: Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University and world authority on contemporary television drama. His books include 'Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ' 'Deny All Knowledge': Reading 'The X-Files, 'Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to 'Twin Peaks and 'This Thing of Ours: Investigating 'The Sopranos. He is Co-Editor of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Founding Editor, Critical Studies in Television journal, and Editor, Studies in Popular Culture journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845111212
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845111214
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 214 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Series Title: Reading Contemporary Television
  • Sub Title: Hit TV from HBO
  • Width: 137 mm


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