A Sitdown With the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked-About Series - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312295286 ISBN 13: 9780312295288

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

Eight prominent Italian-American authors--including George Anastasia, Jay Parini, Regina Barreca, and five others--share their insights into and interpretations of HBO's award-winning series The Sopranos, discussing such topics as family, heritage, men, women, suburbia, organized crime, religion, and psychotherapy and how the show portrays these themes. Original. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Regina Barreca is Professor of English and Feminist Theory at the University of Connecticut. Her many publications include the best-selling book Don’t Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing, and a weekly column in The Hartford Courant.

Review:

"In its daring intellectuality, A Sitdown With the Sopranos is as gripping as the tv show itself. All of the essays are unfailingly strong and the book’s shattering of so many dumb and hurtful conceptions about Italian Americans and their culture will alter American consciousness for good, and for the good."—Frank Lentricchia, Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature at Duke University and author of Lucchesi and the Whale

"Look, I'm half-Italian. Tony Soprano stands in front of the opened refrigerator, dropping sheets of prosciutto into his mouth, and I love him like a brother. Then he orders someone whacked and he's about as lovable as Gotti. So I'm all over the place in my response to this show, these characters. I hunger to hear from other Italian-Americans on the subject of The Sopranos and I trust Barreca to deliver the goods. Why? Because she knows humor, pathos, and marinara."—Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much is True
-- Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312295286
• ISBN 13: 9780312295288
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Barreca Regina