July 25, 2008
Professors organize sitdown on 'The Sopranos'
Steven Van Zandt, James Gandolfini and Tony Sirico (Photo courtesy of HBO)
More than 60 college professors from around the
world will gather at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus to
analyze the HBO mob drama "The Sopranos."
The symposium is called "The Sopranos: A Wake," and was
created as a way to define the show's position in popular culture,
according to event organizers. It will be held May 22-25 and will
include sessions on gender, parenthood, ethnicity and cuisine, all
based on "Sopranos" episodes.
Fordham communications and media studies department chairman
Paul Levinson says "The Sopranos" is one of the most significant
TV series ever produced and is worth studying. The HBO show ended
last June after six seasons, many murders and even more Emmy
awards.
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