The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?

Series produced by Paul Levinson

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scholarly assessment of The Sopanos' finale

The unexpected cut-to-black-and-silence at the end of The Sopranos finale has set the worlds of fans, critics, and scholars ablaze with talk and controversy. In this limited series, Paul Levinson, PhD - author of numerous works of scholarship and fiction, and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University - explores the role of ambiguous endings in literature, plays, classic television, and now, The Sopranos...


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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41