Polan The Sopranos

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9241-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Spin Offs

In this concise analysis of the television show The Sopranos, a leading film and TV scholar explains the importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polan, Dana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue 1

1. The Sopranos on Screen 17

1. Watching The Sopranos 19

2. Eight Million Stories in the Naked City 32

3. Food for Thought 45

4. Living in the Moment 56

5. The Late Style of The Sopranos 63

6. Gaming The Sopranos 72

7. Getting High with The Sopranos 86

8. Qualifying "Quality TV" 98

9. "Honey, I'm Home" 105

10. Against Interpretation 113

11. New Jersey Dreaming 133

2. The Sopranos in the Marketplace 143

12. Tie-ins and Hangers-on 146

13. Touring Postindustrialism 155

14. Cashing In on the Game 162

15. Cable and the Economics of Experimentation 174

16. This Thing of Ours 194

Notes 197

Selected Bibliography 211

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Dana Polan is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is the author of several books including Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, Jane Campion, Pulp Fiction, and Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940–1950.