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A Sitdown with The Sopranos. Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked About Series Edited by Regina Barreca Palgrave/St. Martin's 2002 Paperback ISBN#: 0-312-29528-6 |
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Eight noted Italian American writers gather to discuss, interpret, and celebrate television's most famous Italian American family. The Sopranos has changed the way Americans view New Jersey, Sunday nights, and especially Italian American culture and life. As its popularity has skyrocketed, however, the show has attracted critics who claim it presents negative images of Italian Americans. A Sitdown with The Sopranos is an insightful reply to this criticism from the country's most significant Italian American writers. Edited by bestselling author Regina Barreca, the book examines women, heritage, suburbia, organized crime, religion, psychotherapy, and family, and considers how the show portrays these themes. |
| ~Look, I'm half Italian. Tony Soprano stands in front of the opened refrigerator dropping sheets of proscuitto into his mouth, and I love him like a brother. Then he orders someone whacked and he's about as lovable as Gotti. So I'm all over the place in my response to this show, these characters. I hunger to hear from other Italian-Americans on the subject of The Sopranos and I trust Barreca to deliver the goods. Why? Because she knows humor, pathos, marinara. |
| --Wally Lamb, Author of She's Come Undone |
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