Considering David Chase

Essays on The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure and The Sopranos
Herausgeber: Fahy, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

A compelling and innovative television writer, David Chase has created distinctive programs since the 1970s, each reflecting his edgy humor and psychological realism. These critical essays examine Chase's television writings, placing particular emphasis on how his past works have shaped and influenced the cultural phenomenon of HBO's The Sopranos, and studying Chase's use of identity, community, and place in defining his on-screen characters. Topics explored include Chase's constructs of the urban L.A. environment in The Rockford Files, the portrayal of hybridized American archetypes in Northern Exposure, and the interpretation of sexual identity/masculinity in The Sopranos. An appendix containing complete episode guides for The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, and The Sopranos is also included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780786432844
• ISBN-10: 0786432845
• Artikelnr.: 22875933

Autorenporträt

Thomas Fahy, also the author of several books and editor of Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death and America in the Television and Film Writings (2006) and Considering Aaron Sorkin: Essays on the Politics, Poetics and Sleight of Hand in the Films and Television Series (2005) is an assistant professor of English and director of American Studies at Long Island University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction      1 From Paradise Cove to the Precinct: Mapping The
Rockford Files' Urban (Tele)Visions      11 Driving in Circles: The
Rockford Files       29 Going Native in Cicely, Alaska: American Archetypes
and Hybridized Identity on Northern Exposure     
"You Don't Have to Eat Every Dish of Rigatoni": Food, Music, and Identity
in the Works of David Chase     
"This Art's Kind of a Girly Thing": Art, Status, and Gender on The Sopranos
and Northern Exposure     
Narrative Ergonomics and the Functions of Feminine Space in The Sopranos
     
Crooked Reading: Postmodernism and The Sopranos     
Wackos in the Wilderness vs. Getting Whacked in Newark: Dueling Family
Models in Northern Exposure and The Sopranos     
Defense-of-Family Acts: Queering Famiglia in The Sopranos     
Until the Fat Man Sings: Body Image, Masculinity, and Sexuality in The
Sopranos     
From Troy to 95 Lincoln Place, Irvington, N.J.: A Virgilian Reading of The
Sopranos Underworld     
Episode Listing for The Rockford Files     
Episode Listing for Northern Exposure     
Episode Listing for The Sopranos     
About the Contributors     
Index