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"NOT FOR NUTHIN" Charles J. Stivale Dana Polan's The Sopranos—the first volume of Spin Offs in the established Duke University Press series The Console-ing Passions— presents the challenge to readers, and especially to viewers/fans, of how one might read, understand, and interpret a popular media product in the age of corporate marketing strategies and commer cial tie-ins and spinoffs. Through out a two-part study—the first part devoted to "The Sopranos on Screen," the second to "The Sopra nos in the Marketplace"-—Polan suggests that no nonironic, non problematized, thus no simple in terpretation is possible especially of a series created by writers and pro ducers who deliberately exploited the show's ironic content and shift |
