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.
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.
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