TY  - GEN
AU  - Polan,Dana
TI  - The Sopranos
SN  - /doi.org/10.1215/9780822392415
PY  - 2009///
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Television
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - History & Criticism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - “In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. A renowned film and TV scholar, Polan combines a close and extended reading of the show itself—and of select episodes and scenes—with broader attention to the social landscape with which it is in dialogue. For Polan, The Sopranos is a work of playful irony that complicates simplistic attempts to grasp its meanings and values. The show seductively beckons the viewer into an amoral universe, hinting at ways to make sense of its ethically complicated situations, only to challenge the viewer’s complacent grasp of things
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43813/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36895
ER  -