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D. Polan's Claims On The Sopranos
D. Polan’s claims on The Sopranos genre:
- Modernism because of its fragmented plotlines p.33
- Uses similar narrative techniques as sitcoms (Friends) p.35 – opening title, resemblance to a domestic sitcom.
- Almost science-fictional direction that is only touched upon during dream sequence and when seeing The Sopranos world through Tony’s subconscious
- The daytime soap opera operates, as does The Sopranos, with complexity and multiplicity of narrative lines, slowness of development, painful extension of duration, and an uneventful everydayness punctuated and punctured by moments of crisis or triumph, repetition, and a general resistance to easy, forward progression of a singular story. The Sopranos even directly acts like a traditional soap in …show more content…
- Moreover the rise of cable and auteur television brought the need and the lingering in the directors to make sure people knew that what they were watching wasn’t JUST television, it was quality television –different from what people without cable could get
- Lavery in fact talks as well about “television auteur” as a defyining factor of the Sopranos
- More self-aware and – in this way post modern – than it wants the spectators to believe
- HBO-fication of genre IDEA R. Colin Tait talks about even though I might not fully agree is closer to my definition of what genre the Sopranos actually is – although digresses as well in discussing the influence of Gangster film Crime Drama and The
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