Download or read book Paying Respect to The Sopranos written by Christopher J. Vincent and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a detailed account of lead character Tony Soprano's psychological journey through all episodes of all six seasons of the popular HBO show The Sopranos. Through a window of psychological interpretation and social analysis, the author examines creator David Chase's unique interweaving of modern family dynamics, organized crime, American society, and mental health. Early chapters focus on Tony's influential early life experiences and the mental stress that affects him as a result of violent criminal activity and fluctuating relationships with his wife and children. Later chapters focus on internal conflicts and behavioral symptoms and the critical role of Tony's psychiatric therapy sessions. The book's final chapters explore the Soprano family as a unified whole.
Download or read book Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture written by Rupa Huq and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK.
Download or read book Exploring Visual Literacy Inside Outside and Through the Frame written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary exploration of visual literacy is a result of the discussions that arose at the 2011 Conference on Visual Literacy in Oxford. Consistent with the themes which surfaced at the conference, this collection of articles examines our ways of framing what we see.
Download or read book Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession written by Robert Samuels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists. Through a psychoanalytic interpretation of The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, House of Cards, Dexter, Game of Thrones, and Succession, Robert Samuels uncovers how moderate “liberals” have helped to produce and maintain the libertarian Right. Samuels’ analysis explores the difference between contemporary centrists and the foundations of liberal democracy, exposing the myth of the “liberal media” and considers the consequences of these celebrated series, including the undermining of trust in modern liberal democratic institutions. Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession contributes to a greater understanding of the ways media and political ideology can circulate on a global level through the psychopathology of class consciousness. This book will be of great interest to academics and scholars considering intersections of psychoanalytic studies, television studies, and politics.
Download or read book Qui sono io Who am I Fictional Representation of Italian American Immigrants Search for Identity in The Sopranos written by Felicitas Schott and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ausgangspunkt und Arbeitshypothese Die USA gehören zu den beliebtesten Zielen von Auswanderern auf der ganzen Welt. Als inzwischen fünftgrößte ethnische Gruppe haben sich die Italiener etabliert. Auch wenn die USA ein multikulturelles Land darstellen, in dem viele verschiedene Ethnien zusammen leben, so ist das Leben als Auswanderer oder Nachfahre eines Immigranten geprägt von einer ständigen Suche nach der eigenen Zugehörigkeit und somit der Identität. Als mit italienischem Hintergrund in den USA Lebender hat man zwar durch die Familie und ggf. durch das soziale Umfeld einen italienischen Einfluss und erfährt somit Prägung durch italienische Kultur. Auf der anderen Seite ist man aber auch von einer amerikanischen Umgebung und ebenso von anderen Kulturen beeinflusst. Diese Arbeit zeigt das Problem der Findung der eigenen Identität als Italo-Amerikaner (italienisch-amerikanischer Immigrant) in den USA anhand von der fiktionalen amerikanischen TV-Serie The Sopranos auf. Dabei wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Identität durch bestimmte Merkmale beeinflusst und geprägt wird. Fragestellung und Ziel der Arbeit Die zentrale Aufgabe dieser Arbeit liegt darin, eine möglichst facettenreiche Analyse der Serie The Sopranos, im spezifischen ihrer Charaktere und deren Bemühen bei der Findung ihrer Identität und die Prozesse und Probleme, die sie dabei durchlaufen, vorzunehmen. Es werden Fragen geklärt wie, was prägt die Identität eines Menschen, welche Probleme konfrontieren insbesondere italienisch-amerikanische Immigranten bei der Bildung und Entwicklung ihrer Identität und wie spiegelt sich eben dieser Prozess mit all seinen Einflüssen und Hindernissen in der Serie The Sopranos wieder.
Download or read book The Search for Meaning in Film and Television written by M. Maloney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the difficulties faced by modern Westerners in their search for a meaningful life. It sheds light on this enduring cultural dilemma through a close reading of four popular film and television narratives.
Download or read book Television Program Master Index written by Charles V. Dintrone and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography. Appendices include a list of websites; an index of groups or classes of people on television; and a list of programs by genre. Changes from the second edition include more than 300 new shows, airing on a wider variety of networks; 2000-plus references (more than double the second edition); and a large increase in scholarly articles. The book provides access to materials on almost 2300 shows, including groundbreaking ones like All in the Family (almost 200 entries); cult favorites like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (200-plus entries); and a classic franchise, Star Trek (more than 400 entries for all the shows). The shows covered range from the late 1940s to 2010 (The Walking Dead). References range from 1956 to 2013.
Download or read book The Sopranos The Book written by HBO and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion volume to a television show that has generated millions of die-hard viewers in its six seasons features more than 30 original interviews with the shows actors, producers, and guest stars, as well as behind-the-scenes looks at the sets and locations, a detailed episode guide, and more than 200 color photos, some never before seen.Hachette Book Group USA
Download or read book Transforming Our Painful Emotions Spiritual Resources in Anger Shame Grief Fear and Loneliness written by Evelyn Eaton Whitehead and James D. Whitehead and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tinderbox written by James Andrew Miller and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession...HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York; with ESPN in Those Guys Have All the Fun; and with talent agency CAA in Powerhouse, Miller continues his record of extraordinary access to the most important voices, this time speaking with talents ranging from Abrams (J. J.) to Zendaya, as well as every single living president of HBO—and hundreds of other major players. Over the course of more than 750 interviews with key sources, Miller reveals how fraught HBO’s journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and inside boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe, and, in doing so, reshaped storytelling and upended our entertainment lives forever.
Download or read book Screening the Mafia written by George S. Larke-Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “post-classic” era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the popular and highly influential The Godfather. This historical study explores the structure, myths and intertextual narratives found in the gangster films produced since The Godfather. The intense relationship between masculinity and ethnicity in the gangster film, especially within the movie-generated mythology of the Mafia, is carefully analyzed, and the book tracks the trends in the genre up to and including the landmark HBO television series The Sopranos (1999–2007). A selected filmography is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain written by Patrick Griffin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So youve just come up with a new ad campaign. Love the spots! Too bad no one will ever see themeven worsetoo bad no one cares! Why is it that so much of that stuff we immediately recognize as advertising is so bad? Its not just badwellit sucks. The reason: even though its 2010, most ad agencies and the practitioners who run them are still doing things the same way as Don Draper and the guys from Sterling Cooper on Mad Men, the hit AMC series that depicts Madison Avenue in the 60s. The problem today? Gone are the chain-smoking, bourbon-slugging, secretary-assaulting ad men of the 60s. Newspapers and radio are dying. Commercial TV is losing its audience to subscription-based content. Todays consumer of advertising content is mobile, prepared to DVR through commercials, and watch content on their terms online, on a hand-held device, or a Smartphone. In Pay No Attention to that Man behind the Curtain, Patrick Griffin and Kevin Flynn dissect mass media advertising at an historic crossroads and explain what no longer works. Through real-world examples and biting humor, they show how to market in ways that are both creative and smart.
Download or read book To the Fullest written by Lorraine Bracco and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorraine Bracco is one of the world's most dynamic actresses, but when she reached her fifties, she felt she was losing her luster. During the long illnesses of her parents, she began to gain weight and felt her energy and self-confidence take a dive. Watching her parents die within 9 days of each other was her wake-up call to take charge of her life. She made a commitment to herself to stay healthy. In To the Fullest, Bracco presents her Clean Up Your Act Program, a comprehensive plan to help women over 40 look and feel younger. The program includes an intensive liver cleanse to reboot the body to start fresh on the path to optimal health by eliminating gluten, sugar, eggs, and dairy. Two weeks of meal plans and a varied list of meals and snacks illustrate that hunger is not part of the program and that eating clean has endless flavorful options. Her Clean Up Your Act Diet, which follows the cleanse, will help you lose pounds and deliver supercharged energy. Bracco adds her own mouthwatering recipes to ease the transition to clean eating and suggests an abundance of satisfying breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks. She gradually lost 35 pounds and has kept it off. The book also includes testimonials gathered from women who have participated in Rodale's 6-week test panel. With winning honesty, Bracco provides the perfect combination of humor, comfort, and motivational support that women need to rise to life's challenges. From attitude adjustments to style tips, from finding new passions to making movement a habit, her advice and personal insights both inspire and entertain.
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Download or read book Knowing More about Student Loans How to Pay Them Back written by Dueep Jyot Singh and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Knowing More about Student Loans Minimum Reduced Loan Amount Saving for a Higher Education Scholarship Applications Student Loan Types Federal Loans Checking Your Eligibility for Federal Loans When Do Student Loans Need to Be Paid Back Different types of Repayment Plans Cannot make your loan payment? Can loans be deferred? So how do I pay off my huge student loan? Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction A friend of mine, a professor in an Ivy League college in America happen to bemoan the fact that a large percentage of really brilliant students could not afford to join colleges and dropped out after high school graduation, because of the exorbitant cost of education. And those who really were determined to get a good college degree and higher qualifications spent most of their lives paying off their student loans. And then she said to me, “I just want to know, you were a part of the college academic circle, in your country, is the expenditure in getting a college education degree and postgraduate qualifications so expensive over there?” She could not believe her ears, when I told her that when I had got my Science Degree, way back in the late 80s and then my Masters, two years later, the total expenditure borne by my parents for those Degrees was exactly zero. “You must have taken out a student loan,” she said. “What student loan? Higher education is subsidized by the government and has been done so for the past 40 years; especially if you are a woman, and want to do your Masters, M. Phil, and PhD. That is because women in our land were culturally not encouraged to learn the 3R’s, reading, writing, arithmetic, and so the government decided that this could only be done by making sure that education for women was free. So their parents could have absolutely no excuse of saying, that higher education for women is so costly, we had better keep the funds for getting our sons a Professional College Degree.”
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Download or read book Crime Does Not Pay Archives Volume 10 written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated series continues to recount the criminal deeds of the bandits, bank robbers, serial killers, and gangsters of yesteryear while reprinting some of the most notorious pre-Code comics of all time! Our latest deluxe hardcover--including every uncensored page from Crime Does Not Pay issues #58 to #61--is packed with timeless true-crime tales by artists George Tuska, Jack Cole, Fred Guardineer, Dan Barry, Charles Biro, and others! This volume also features an enlightening new foreword by Eisner Award-winning writer Jeff Jensen (Green River Killer)! "Even in today's more jaded times, the guilt-free exuberance the creators poured into every bullet and blood spatter is infectious. This Crime pays, with hours of fun." -The Seattle Times
