Considering David Chase : essays on the Rockford Files, Northern Exposure, and the Sopranos / edited by Thomas Fahy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fahy, Thomas Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chase, David, 1945 August 22---Criticism and interpretation.

Chase, David.

Chase, David, 1945 August 22-.

Rockford files (Television program).

Northern exposure (Television program).

Sopranos (Television program).

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2008]

Summary:

"These critical essays examine Chase's television writings, and study Chase's use of identity, community, and place in defining his on-screen characters. Topics explored include Chase's constructs of the urban L.A. environment in The Rockford Files, the portrayal of hybridized American archetypes in Northern Exposure, and the interpretation of sexual identity/masculinity in The Sopranos. "--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From Paradise Cove to the precinct: mapping the Rockford Files urban (tele)visions / Victoria E. Johnson

Driving in circles: the Rockford Files / Robert F. Gross

Going native in Cicely, Alaska: American archetypes and hybridized identity on Northern Exposure / Heather E. Epes

"You don't have to eat every dish of rigatoni": food, music, and identity in the works of David Chase / Thomas Fahy

"This art's kind of a girly thing": art, status, and gender on the Sopranos and Northern Exposure / Kirstin Ringelberg

Narrative ergonomics and the functions of feminine space in The Sopranos / Susann Cokal

Crooked reading: postmodernism and the Sopranos / Ann C. Hall

Wackos in the wilderness vs. getting whacked in Newark: dueling family models in Northern Exposureand the Sopranos / Mardia J. Bishop

Defense-of-family acts: queering Famiglia in the Sopranos / Lorena Russell

Until the fat man sings: body image, masculinity, and sexuality in the Sopranos / Keith B. Mitchell

From Troy to 95 lincoln Place, Irvington, N.J.: a Virgilian reading of the Sopranos underworld / Michael Calabrese.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786432844

0786432845

OCLC:

166255138