Dana Polan

The Sopranos

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Produktbeschreibung

"In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still," Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry co

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343929
• ISBN-10: 0822343924
• Artikelnr.: 25872458

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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