The Prince of North Jersey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11353370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean DeFino (Iona College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-89 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Popular Film and Television (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6051 • E-ISSN: 1930-6458 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01956051.2004.10662054 |
| OpenAlex | W1974763188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Although many critics consider Tony Soprano from HBO's mob series The Sopranos a troubled Everyman, an emblem of the human need for redemption, the program reveals a postmodern politician more concerned with his leadership skills than his humanity. Caught between the Machiavellian poles of the humane prince and the beastly dictator, Tony is compelled to more and more beastly deeds in a struggle to achieve and maintain power among the ruins of a dying mob culture. Tony's desperate brutality, read against our surprisingly resilient empathy for him, compels us to ask the very question his therapist, Dr. Melfi, poses to herself: Are we being conned by a sociopath
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Dictator · Emblem · Empathy · Humanity · Literature · Media studies · Police brutality · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |