This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos

Edited by David Lavery

Table of Contents

Introductory

• David Lavery, MTSU: Coming Heavy: The Significance of The Sopranos

• Ellen Willis, NYU: Our Mobsters, Ourselves

• Albert Auster, Fordham University: The Sopranos: The Gangster Redux

Men and Women

• Cindy Donatelli and Sharon Alward, University of Manitoba: “I dread you”: Married to the Mob in The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos

• Avi Santo, University of Texas: “Why Don’t you take a look in the mirror, you insensitive prick”: Weight, Body Image and Masculinity in The Sopranos

• Joanne Lacey, University of Brighton: One for the Boys? The Sopranos and Its Male, British Audience

• Joseph S. Walker, Auburn University: “Cunnilingus and Psychoanalysis Have Brought Us To This”: Livia and the Logic of False Hoods

 The Media Context

• David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, and Robert J. Thompson, Syracuse University, David Chase, The Sopranos, and Television Creativity

• Glen Creeber, Cardiff University: “TV Ruined the Movies'’ Television, Tarantino, and The Intimate World of The Sopranos'

• Dawn Elizabeth B. Johnston, University of Calgary: Way North of New Jersey: A Canadian Experience of The Sopranos

• Paul Levinson, Fordham University, Naked Bodies, Three Showings a Week, and No Commercials: The Sopranos as a Nuts-and-Bolts Triumph of Non-Network TV

• Mark C. Rogers, Walsh University, Michael Epstein, Southwestern School of Law, and Jimmie Reeves, Texas Tech University: The Sopranos as HBO Brand Equity: The Art of Commerce in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Genre, Narrative Technique, and Intertextuality

• David Pattie, University College, Chester: Mobbed Up: The Sopranos and the Intertextual Gangster

• Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, University of North London: Beyond the Bada Bing!: Negotiating Female Narrative Authority in The Sopranos

• Kevin Fellezs, University of California Santa Cruz: Wiseguy Opera: Music for Sopranos

Cultural Contexts

• Lance Strate, Fordham University: No(rth Jersey) Sense of Place: The Cultural Geography (and Media Ecology) of The Sopranos

• Douglas L. Howard, SUNY at Suffolk: "Soprano-speak": Language and Silence in The Sopranos

• Steven Hayward, University of Pennsylvania, and Andrew Biro, University of Toronto: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Tony Soprano

• Sara Lewis Dunne, Middle Tennessee State University: "The Brutality of Meat" and "the Abruptness of Seafood": Food, Violence, and Family in The Sopranos