Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large, Sepinwall weaves incisive criticism with entertaining reporting about the real-life characters and conflicts behind the scenes
Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
Uses the television series "The wire" as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city poverty and drug-related violence. Each chapter recounts scenes from episodes of the series, placing the characters' challenges into the broader context of public policy
Provides a historical and dialectical journey through some of the most salient and abiding works of art, literature, TV series and film, including the analysis of more classical forms such as the paintings of Van Gogh or work by Balzac and Brontë, alongside modern elements which…
Rico 'Little Caesar' Bandello, Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are just some of the onscreen mafia figures that have fascinated audiences since cinema's inception. Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American mafia, though, have differed markedly over time and across multip…
Widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is also considered one of the most significant achievements in contemporary American culture. The series spearheaded the launch of a new wave of quality programming that has transformed the way pe…
William Shatner's personal tribute to his longtime friend and Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy
