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A 5 page consideration of the popular television series. This paper analyzes character and plot to support the contention that the popularity of such shows is directly attributable to degraded popular culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a very real mob family. This family is the DeCavalcante crime family, a family that Smith (2004) variously describes as the "littlest mafia family in North America" (p. 7)
and "most powerful mob family in New Jersey" (back cover). Interestingly, before the hit television show the DeCavalcante family lived largely in obscurity. Families like the Gambinos and
the Colombos dominated the publics perception of the mob. Smith contends, in fact, that "The Sopranos" actually "legitimized the made men of the Garden State" (back cover). Indeed,
many have contended that the television show in many ways can claim responsibility for the downfall of the real life DeCavalcante family. They became more high profile and that
introduced risks that were largely non-existent previously. Considerably more important than its potential relationship, or lack thereof, to the downfall of a crime family, however, is the question of
what makes such shows so popular? This paper argues that the popularity of shows like "The Sopranos" are made possible by the degraded popular culture that characterizes America today.
Both the success of the fictional Soprano crime family and the real life DeCavalcante family can be explained by the growing acceptance in
our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of glorification of organized crime that is represented by "The Sopranos" is, after all, a
relatively recent advent to the popular media. While Americans have always been somewhat it awe of the mystery of well-known crime families like the Gottis and the Gambinos, they
have also been somewhat repulsed by them. "The Sopranos" remind us that we have moved far beyond the decades where we
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