title: A Sitdown With the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked-About Series
author:  Regina Barreca 
description: 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.<br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: The Sopranos
  
  TV Milestones
  Series Editors
  Barry Keith Grant 
   
   
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  Brock University 
   
   
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  TV Milestones is part of the Contemporary Approaches to Film 
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  Lucy Fischer
  University of Pittsburgh
  Frances Gateward
  California State University, Northridge
  Tom Gunning 
  University of Chicago
  Thomas Leitch
  University of Delaware
  Walter Metz
  Southern Illinois University
  
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  THE SOPRANOS
  
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