Barreca, Regina.
A Sitdown
with the Sopranos. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002.
(From
Publishers' Weekly:) English and feminist theory professor
Regina Barreca gathers eight Italian-American writers' thoughts on
Tony and Carmela Soprano, family, psychotherapy and more in A Sitdown
with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most
Talked-About Series. "The Italian American experience being spotlighted
here is a reflection of all the other versions of itself... The Sopranos
is about the human experience about all of us, about the struggle
to find a safe place," she writes in her introduction. The essays
that follow from Sandra M. Gilbert's "Life with (God)Father" to George
Anastasia's "If Shakespeare Were Alive Today" offer intelligent commentary
on how the show portrays (or fails to portray) some key components
of Italian-American life.
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(From
Publishers' Weekly:) English and feminist theory professor
Regina Barreca gathers eight Italian-American writers' thoughts on
Tony and Carmela Soprano, family, psychotherapy and more in A Sitdown
with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most
Talked-About Series. "The Italian American experience being spotlighted
here is a reflection of all the other versions of itself... The Sopranos
is about the human experience about all of us, about the struggle
to find a safe place," she writes in her introduction. The essays
that follow from Sandra M. Gilbert's "Life with (God)Father" to George
Anastasia's "If Shakespeare Were Alive Today" offer intelligent commentary
on how the show portrays (or fails to portray) some key components
of Italian-American life.