Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Prologue ``Coming Heavy'': The Significance of The Sopranos

David Lavery

Introductory

Our Mobsters, Ourselves

Ellen Willis

The Sopranos: The Gangster Redux

Albert Auster

The Media Context

David Chase, The Sopranos, and Television Creativity

David Lavery

Robert J. Thompson

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

Paul Levinson

Way North of New Jersey: A Canadian Experience of The Sopranos

Dawn Elizabeth B. Johnston

The Sopranos as HBO Brand Equity: The Art of Commerce in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Mark C. Rogers

Michael Epstein

Jimmie L. Reeves

Men and Women

``I dread you''?: Married to the Mob in The Godfather, GoodFellas, and The Sopranos

Cindy Donatelli

Sharon Alward

``Fat fuck! Why don't you take a look in the mirror?'': Weight, Body Image, and Masculinity in The Sopranos

Avi Santo

One for the Boys? The Sopranos and Its Male British Audience

Joanne Lacey

``Cunnilingus and Psychiatry Have Brought Us To This'': Livia and the Logic of False Hoods in the First Season of The Sopranos

Joseph S. Walker

Genre and Narrative Technique

``TV Ruined the Movies'': Television, Tarantino, and the Intimate World of The Sopranos

Glen Creeber

Mobbed Up: The Sopranos and the Modern Gangster Film

David Pattie

Beyond the Bada Bing!: Negotiating Female Narrative Authority in The Sopranos

Kim Akass

Janet McCabe

Wiseguy Opera: Music for Sopranos

Kevin Fellezs

Cultural Contexts

No(rth Jersey) Sense of Place: The Cultural Geography (and Media Ecology) of The Sopranos

Lance Strate

``Soprano-Speak'': Language and Silence in HBO's The Sopranos

Douglas L. Howard

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Tony Soprano

Steven Hayward

Andrew Biro

``The Brutality of Meat and the Abruptness of Seafood'': Food, Violence, and Family in The Sopranos

Sara Lewis Dunne

Appendices

A The Sopranos Episodes

B The Sopranos Cast of Characters

C Intertextual Moments and Allusions in The Sopranos

D The Sopranos: A Family History

Notes

Bibliography

Index