Considering David Chase : essays on the Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, and the Sopranos / edited by Thomas Fahy.
"These critical essays examine Chase's television writings, and study 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...
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| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[2008], ©2008.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- From Paradise Cove to the precinct: mapping the Rockford Files urban (tele)visions / Victoria E. Johnson
- Driving in circles: the Rockford Files / Robert F. Gross
- Going native in Cicely, Alaska: American archetypes and hybridized identity on Northern Exposure / Heather E. Epes
- "You don't have to eat every dish of rigatoni": food, music, and identity in the works of David Chase / Thomas Fahy
- "This art's kind of a girly thing": art, status, and gender on the Sopranos and Northern Exposure / Kirstin Ringelberg
- Narrative ergonomics and the functions of feminine space in The Sopranos / Susann Cokal
- Crooked reading: postmodernism and the Sopranos / Ann C. Hall
- Wackos in the wilderness vs. getting whacked in Newark: dueling family models in Northern Exposureand the Sopranos / Mardia J. Bishop
- Defense-of-family acts: queering Famiglia in the Sopranos / Lorena Russell
- Until the fat man sings: body image, masculinity, and sexuality in the Sopranos / Keith B. Mitchell
- From Troy to 95 lincoln Place, Irvington, N.J.: a Virgilian reading of the Sopranos underworld / Michael Calabrese.