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Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the show's debut, they reunite to produce a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode, as well as new interviews with series creator David Chase. They explore the shows artistry, themes, and legacy, examining its portrayal of Italian Americans, its graphic depictions of violence, and its deep connection to other cinematic and television classics.
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When Narrative Brands End: The Impact of Narrative Closure and Consumption Sociality on Loss Accommodation
This research emically documents consumers’ experience of the end of a favorite television series. Anchored in the domain of evolving narrative brands, of which TV series are an archetypal example, this work draws from narrative theory, brand relationship theory, and basic research on interpersonal loss to document the processes of loss accommodation. The authors triangulate across data sources and methods (extended participant observation, long interview, and online forum analysis) to unfold the processes of loss accommodation triggered by brand discontinuation. Accommodation processes and postwithdrawal relationship trajectories depend upon the nature and closural force of the narrative inherent to the brand but also the sociality that surrounds its consumption. Consumption sociality allows access to transitive and connective resources that facilitate the processes of accommodation during critical junctures in consumer-brand relationships.
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On locations : lessons learned from my life on set with the Sopranos and in the film industry
\"An inside look at the film industry for fans, students, and aspiring professionals. This account of starting at the lowest rung on the production ladder among enormously famous & outrageously demanding people has interesting insights and gossip. Married and with a child, the author takes unpaid gigs to get a foot in the door, and eventually ends up working on all seasons of The Sopranos. The show's setting and its creator's insistence on accuracy placed the native New Jersey author in the right place at the right time to become part of television history, and to witness the effects of sudden fame and acclaim on the show's principal players. Includes many stories about guest stars, as well as the cast, including new tales of James Gandolfini. Woven in is a personal story of home life and strife, achievement and frustration, anxiety and accomplishment. The book's epilogue brings readers up to the moment as the author, after many more years as an anonymous everyman, eventually enjoys outsize professional success as executive producer of the HBO hit series created by Mike White, The White Lotus.
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Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
\"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?\" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcomThe Nannywas meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of the show, in which the protagonist was dubbed into an exotic, eccentric Italian-American nanny.Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?explores this \"ventriloquism\" as not only a textual and cultural transfer between languages but also as an industrial practice that helps the media industry foster identification among varying audiences around the globe.
At the heart of this study is an in-depth exploration of three shows that moved from global to local, mapping stereotypes from both sides of the Atlantic in the process. Presented in Italy, for example, Groundskeeper Willie fromThe Simpsonsis no longer a belligerent, alcoholic Scotsman but instead easily becomes a primitive figure from Sardinia. Ironically,The Sopranos-a show built around Italian-Americans-was carefully re-positioned by Italian TV executives, who erased the word \"mafia\" and all regional references to Sicily. The result of Ferrari's three case studies is evidence that \"otherness\" transcends translation, as the stereotypes produced by the American entertainment industry are simply replaced by other stereotypes in foreign markets. As American television studios continue to attempt to increase earnings by licensing their shows abroad,Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?illuminates the significant issues of identity raised by this ever-growing marketplace, along with the intriguing messages that lie in the larger realm of audiovisual cultural exchange.
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The Sopranos
From its premiere in 1999, The Sopranos captivated viewers with its easily relatable protagonist who has troubles at work and home, and went on to be one of the most critically successful shows in television history. By demonstrating that TV could be at once artistic and profitable, complex and engaging, edifying and entertaining, the series also redefined the prime-time drama. In this volume, author Gary R. Edgerton delves into the entire run of The Sopranos, integrating the existing scholarly literature, while also going much further than any previous source in exploring the series' innovations and legacy.First, Edgerton describes and analyzes The Sopranos' enormous business and industrial significance within the context of HBO as a network, a diversified entertainment company, and an identity brand. In chapter 2, he examines the many autobiographical influences and work experiences of creator David Chase and the narrative antecedents that informed the series' beginnings. In chapter 3, Edgerton underscores The Sopranos' deeply evocative sense of place, honing in especially on the cultural geography of New Jersey as representative of the nation as a whole. Finally, in chapter 4, Edgerton highlights how The Sopranos marks \"A Midlife Crisis for the Gangster Genre\" by illustrating some of the most profound generic transformations that took place over the course of the show, while his conclusion summarizes The Sopranos' ongoing industrial, aesthetic, and cultural legacy.The Sopranos is widely recognized in both popular and scholarly literature as a turning point in the history and development of TV. Fans who want to learn more about the show and scholars of television history will enjoy this entertaining and educational volume.
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Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's \The Sopranos\
\"1 Given the regularity of scenes on HBO's six-season gangster drama that correspond to recognizably feminist issues-for example, Janice claims the identity of feminist despite letting Richie fuck her while holding a gun to her head; Dr. Jennifer Melfi is brutally raped and subsequently experiences symptoms of post-traumatic stress; Meadow's roommate, Caitlin, suffers from an anxiety disorder and self-medicates with Absolut Vodka; Carmela grapples with mixed feelings about her husband's adulterous relationships- The Sopranos clearly qualifies as a site of \"primetime feminism,\" fulfilling quality television's role, formulated eloquently by Bonnie J. Dow, as \"an important ideological forum for public discourse about social issues and social change.
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Jim Rockford or Tony Soprano
Both in television shows such asThe Rockford FilesandThe Sopranosand in the fiction of writers such as John Updike, Richard Ford, and Douglas Coupland, popular culture draws a distinction between Atlantic Coast and Pacific Coast suburbs. The differences revolve around two themes. The first concerns the roles of place and space. The second is the varying weight of history, often as manifested through families and social ties. Eastern suburbs and suburbanites are commonly depicted as embedded in place, rooted in time, and entangled in social networks. Western suburbs and suburbanites are often imagined as the opposite—isolated in space, atemporal, and free (or bereft) of social bonds.
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The Prince of North Jersey
Although many critics consider Tony Soprano from HBO's mob series The Sopranos a troubled Everyman, an emblem of the human need for redemption, the program reveals a postmodern politician more concerned with his leadership skills than his humanity. Caught between the Machiavellian poles of the humane prince and the beastly dictator, Tony is compelled to more and more beastly deeds in a struggle to achieve and maintain power among the ruins of a dying mob culture. Tony's desperate brutality, read against our surprisingly resilient empathy for him, compels us to ask the very question his therapist, Dr. Melfi, poses to herself: Are we being conned by a sociopath?
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The Sopranos: An American Existentialism?
HBO's series 'The Sopranos' has been studied academically through the various optics it invites: psychoanalytic theory, gender studies, its playful genre self-referentiality, and so forth. It can be all of those things, but here The Sopranos is viewed as if it were fundamentally a piece of existentialist philosophy. It promises a contemporary American existentialism' and suggests that middlebrow artistic culture has greater resources than has heretofore been thought - if the lessons of The Sopranos are properly learnt.
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Boardwalk Empire: America Through a Bifocal Lens
Because people want to love the characters they see on television, it was very easy to lull them into the feeling that these guys were big cuddly teddy bears. Ironically, Nucky shoots Jimmy, at a huge memorial to World War I soldiers in a driving rainstorm, shot sculpturally by Van Patten from every conceivable angle, fusing the epic national level of experience, the personal level of intimate relationship, the continuing presence of mob violence, and an homage to a classic Warner Bros. gangster film.
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