The Sopranos on the Couch: The Ultimate Guide: The Ultimate Guide: Analyzing Television's Greatest Series

by Maurice Yacowar (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $35.75

  If television programming is normally considered a wasteland, then The Sopranos may be thought of as a jungle: richly coloured, teeming with life, dark with mystery. The Sopranos on the Couch is a must for all who are already caught up in the excitement, as well as for viewers who are coming to the show for the first time. Yacowar helps us understand exactly why we can't get enough of Tony Soprano and that colourful mafia family that we hate to love and often love to hate! This pop-culture sensation is not only the most controversial series on television, but also the most provocative, thoughtful, and complex. Its language and themes have stretched the norms of commercial television, many characters and phrases having entered our everyday life. The Sopranos on the Couch is the first book to provide a compact, lively, and authoritative examination of each episode and season - the themes, inside jokes, and allusions - thereby putting the series into a broader cultural context.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $20.45

  Maurice Yacowar's detailed analysis of every episode in the four-seasons of the hit series to date covers everything of interest - from editing and script writing to music, links to other gangster films, and the key role played by David Chase, the creator of the program.