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This 6 page report discusses the popular HBO television series “The Sopranos” and focuses on the first-ever episode of the series. The unlikely stories surrounding a northern New Jersey mobster and his friends, family, and “associates” is one that is as popular with critics as it is with its millions of fans. it also offers a fascinating opportunity for study of a television narrative and its inter-related meanings in terms of media theory. No sources provided.
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of crime and criminals as people who happen to be in a very different "business" but who still have the problems, fears, and foibles of people that the average American
actually knows. In only three years, it has become its own form of entertainment phenomenon and has, along with other original series such as "Sex and the City" revived HBOs
floundering status as a viable, much less "premium," entertainment medium. The unlikely stories surrounding a northern New Jersey mobster and his friends, family, and "associates" is one that is as
popular with critics as it is with its millions of fans. The show is a powerful representation of the ways that media influences culture and cultural concerns direct the
focus of the media. Viewers see the duplicity of a society in which a professional crime boss is also a family man, a business owner with apparent nerves of steel
but a man who still needs to seek out mental health counseling because of the stress his two "families," wife and children along with the Mafia, cause in his life
individually and collectively (blood relatives and "blood brothers"). There is always a twist in "The Sopranos," not the least of which comes from the contrasts that are presented in every
episode. Episode One The first episode of the first year of the series is an excellent starting point from which to discuss both the "The Sopranos" and a theory
regarding modern media and the role it plays in individual viewers perceptions, as well as the ways in which forms of entertainment have crossed boundaries between comedy and drama, horror
and pathos. As Mimi White points out, television provides a means through which it is possible to "understand culture as a form of social expression" (pp. 163). Such being the
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