FAMST 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tony Soprano, David Chase, Gangster Stories
Document Summary
Innovative camera work, editing, and sound design: complex show of gangster genre conventions. Requires viewers to be more focused and engaged, attentively. Offers pleasures to viewers because they provide a deeply developed fictional universe. Naturalistic performance styles: confirmed the importance of the serial format, elevating the status of tv and hbo, hilmes reading - all 4 major networks responded with hard declines when david chase pitched it, hbo = paid tv. "it"s not tv, it"s hbo: series finale had an open-ending. Sopranos was judges as a work of art. Emphasis on the importance of david chase as an author. Sophisticated and complex show: tendency to combine tones. Strong vein of dark comedy: tony soprano. Hard time balancing his upscale suburban family life and his unconventional work. Suffers anxiety attacks and bouts of depression (goes to a psychiatrist) Huge responsibilities, especially when his boss dies of cancer. So he has to take over the gang.
