Reading the Sopranos
Hit TV from HBO
Lavery, David (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes toward television itself. Topics explored include the extraordinary characterization of Tony Soprano; racism; dreams; Dr. Melfi as narratee; Carmela as a feminist; Italian-Amer
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The Sopranos has rewritten the rules of television drama and changed attitudes toward television itself. Topics explored include the extraordinary characterization of Tony Soprano; racism; dreams; Dr. Melfi as narratee; Carmela as a feminist; Italian-American womanhood; mafia theatrics; use and abuse of family values and feudal codes; the HBO brand; food's role on the show; and more. The book features Lavery's comprehensive guide to the show's intertextual moments and allusions, a timeline, and character and episode guides.
AUTHOR BIO
David Lavery is a world authority on television drama whose books include This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos, Fighting the Forces: What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and he is Co-Editor of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies. He is Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Introductory * 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 * 2. Homeward Bound: Those Sopranos Titles Come Heavy--David Johansson * Sopranos Women * 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 * Episodes * Bloodlust for the Common Man:
The Sopranos Confronts Its Volatile American Audience--Jessica Baldanzi * Youre 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 * Music, Theatricality, Aesthetics * Gangstas, Divas, and Breaking Tonys 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 * Criminal Justice, Power, Homophobia, Race * Tasting Brylcreem: Law, Disorder, and the FBI in The Sopranos--Douglas Howard * The Prince of North Jersey--Dean DeFino * Black Guys, My Ass: Uncovering the Queerness of Racism in The Sopranos--Brian Gibson * Appendices * Episodes, Writers, and Directors * Intertextual Moments and Allusions in Seasons Four and Five * Characters * Notes * Bibliography * Index CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introductory
Introduction: Can This Be the End of Tony Soprano?
David Lavery 3
1. Surviving The Hit: Will The Sopranos Still Sing for HBO?
Michael M. Epstein, Jimmie L. Reeves, and Mark C. Rogers 15
2. Homeward Bound: Those Sopranos Titles Come Heavy
David Johansson 27
Sopranos Women
3. What has Carmela Ever Done for Feminism?
Carmela Soprano and the Post-Feminist Dilemma
Janet McCabe and Kim Akass 39
4. Disciplining the Masculine:
The Disruptive Power of Janice Soprano
Valerie Palmer-Mehta 56
5. Eve of Destruction: Dr. Melfi as Reader of The Sopranos
Bruce Plourde 69
Episodes
6. Bloodlust for the Common Man:
The Sopranos Confronts Its Volatile American Audience
Jessica Baldanzi 79
7. Youre Annette Bening?
Dreams and Hollywood as Subtext in The Sopranos
Cameron Golden 91
vi READING THE SOPRANOS
8. From Columbus to Gary Cooper:
Mourning the Lost White Father in The Sopranos
Christopher Kocela 104
Music, Theatricality, Aesthetics
9. Gangstas, Divas, and Breaking Tonys Balls:
Musical Reference in The Sopranos
Chris Neal 121
10. Show Business or Dirty Business?
The Theatrics of Mafia Narrative and Empathy for the Last
Mob Boss Standing in The Sopranos
Gwyn Symonds 127
11. Aesthetics and Ammunition:
Art Imitating Life, Life Imitating Art in The Sopranos
Franco Ricci 139
Criminal Justice, Power, Homophobia, Race
12. Tasting Brylcreem:
Law, Disorder, and the FBI in The Sopranos
Douglas Howard 163
13. The Prince of North Jersey
Dean DeFino 179
14. Black Guys, My Ass:
Uncovering the Queerness of Racism in The Sopranos
Brian Gibson 194
Appendices
A. Episodes, Writers, and Directors 214
B. Intertextual Moments and Allusions in Seasons Four and Five 217
C. Characters 233
Notes 236
Bibliography 246
Index 257
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1845111214
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845111212
Dewey Decimal: 791.45/72
Library of Congress: bl2006009544
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 260
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