Table of Contents

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University, Introduction

Foreword by David Bianculli (Rowan University)

ES Part 1: The Sopranos, David Chase, HBO, and Television

Gary R. Edgerton (Old Dominion U), The Sopranos as Tipping Point in the Second Coming of HBO

David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University), From Made Men to Mad Men: What Matthew Weiner Learned from David Chase

Martha Nochimson (Cineaste), The Sopranos: If Nothing Is Real, You Have Overpaid for Your Carpet

Robin Nelson (Manchester Metropolitan U), Author(iz)ing Chase

ES Part 2: Characters

Paul Wright (Cabrini College), "Half a Wiseguy": Paulie Walnuts, Meet Tom Stoppard

Jason Jacobs (U Queensland), Christopher, Osama and AJ: Contemporary Narcissism and Terrorism in The Sopranos

Marisa Carroll, “When It Comes to Daughters, All Bets Are Off”: The Seductive Father-Daughter Relationship Between Tony and Meadow Soprano

ES Part 3: Gendering The Sopranos

Kim Akass (Royal Holloway) and Janet McCabe (Birkbeck, University of London), "Blabbermouth Cunts"; or, Speaking in Tongues: Narrative Crises for Women in The Sopranos and Feminist Dilemmas

Nancy McGuire Roche (Middle Tennessee State University), The Last Temptation of Melfi

George De Stefano (Independent Scholar), A ‘Finook’ in the Crew: Vito Spatafore, The Sopranos, and the Queering of the Mafia

ES Part 4: Cinematic Concerns

Cameron Golden (Independent Scholar), The Producers: The Dangers of Filmmaking in The Sopranos

Glen Creeber (U Wales Aberystwyth), Comfortably Numb? The Sopranos, New Brutalism and the Last Temptation of Chris

Cynthia Burkhead (U North Alabama), Fishes and Football Coaches, Oh My! The Narrative Necessity of Dreams in The Sopranos

Terry Carney (Butler U), From Here to Kevin InFinnerty: The American Way

David Pattie (U Chester), "Whatever Happened to Stop and Smell the Roses?": The Sopranos as Anti-Therapeutic Narrative

Michael M. Grynbaum (Harvard U), Mangia Mafia! Food, Punishment, and Cultural Identity in The Sopranos

Frank P. Tomasulo (Florida State U), The Gangster as Guinea Hero: The Complex Representation of Italian Americans in David Chase’s The Sopranos

Christopher Kocela (Georgia State U), "All Caucasians Look Alike": Dreams of Whiteness at the End of The Sopranos

Barbara Villez (U of Paris 8), Representations of Law and Justice in The Sopranos: An Introduction

James Keneally, Lawyer Client Relations as Seen in The Sopranos

Sharon Sutherland (U of British Columbia Faculty of Law) and Sarah Swan (Independent Scholar), "It’s not a negotiation": Getting to Yes with Tony Soprano

Antoinio Ingroia, The Price of Stereotype: The Representation of the Mafia in Italy and the United States in The Sopranos

Fabio Licata, The Image of Justice in The Sopranos

Robert Piluso (California State U Fullerton), "Funny about God, and fate, and shit like that": The Imminent Unexpected in David Chase’s The Sopranos

Albert Auster (Fordham U), The Sopranos and History

Steven Peacock (U of Hertfordshire), Silence in The Sopranos

Joseph S. Walker (Independent Scholar), "What’s Different Between You and Me": Carmela, the Audience, and the End

Maurice Yacowar (U Calgary), Unpredictable but Inevitable: That Last Scene

Douglas L. Howard (Suffolk County Community College), No Justice for All: The FBI, Cut to Black, and David Chase’s Final Hit

Paul Levinson (Fordham U), The Sopranos and the Closure Junkies

Carl Wilson (Brunel U), "Even Brendan Filone’s got an identity and he’s dead": Christopher Moltisanti and the Reflexive Subjectivity of the Constructed Self [Online Only]

Paul Lumsden (Grant MacEwan College), Tony's Menagerie: Animals in The Sopranos [Online Only]

William Siska (U of Utah), The Sopranos as Art Cinema [Online Only]

Sven Weber (Independent Scholar), The Sopranos: Asleep [Online Only]

Bruce Plourde (Rowan U), Tony and Dora: Mastering the Art of Counter-Transferrance [Online Only]

Ilaria Bisteghi (U of Bologna), The New Serial Television: The Sopranos and The Relay Race-Like Text Structure [Online Only]

Dianna Lipp Rivers (Lamar U), Hospital Scenes, Nursing, and Healthcare in The Sopranos [Online Only]