1st Edition
The New Audience for Old TV Considering the Resurgent Popularity of The Sopranos
1. What’s With All the Tony Soprano Memes? The Sopranos Experience in 2020 2. ‘It’s Called Streaming T’: Shifting Interpretive Contexts and The Sopranos as a ‘New’ Text 3. The Sopranos as a Slow-moving Apocalypse During the COVID-19 Pandemic 4. ‘Adriana Reminds Me So Much of Fergie’: Nostalgia, Pandemic and No Tony 5. ‘Let Them Tear Each Other’s Throats Out’: Reconsidering the Feminist Cultural Work of The Sopranos 6. ‘It’s Like a Fight Club Situation’: Audience Understandings of Gender in The Sopranos 7. Conclusion
Biography
Alexander H. Beare is a media studies scholar at The University of Adelaide. His work specialises in the dynamic relationship between televisual technologies and audience cultures. He has written about the industry logics underpinning Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) programming imperatives and TV series such as The Sopranos, Ted Lasso, and Yellowjackets. Beare’s work has been published in academic journals including Television and New Media, Critical Studies in Television and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
