The Sorry Sons of The Godfather: Intertextuality, Orality and Diminished Masculinities in The Sopranos

When the enormously popular HBO TV series The Sopranos first premiered in 1999, it shared a core plot element with a film released about the same time, Analyze This, also successful and popular enough to later spawn a sequel, Analyze That. 1 They both revolve around the central image of a Mafia boss seeing a psychotherapist. This essay focuses on The Sopranos, and uses references to the contemporaneous Analyze This to bolster its case that a generational shift in images of masculinity is illustrated here. This essay draws exclusively on the first season of The Sopranos in order to isolate a specific moment in the evolution of the cultural zeitgeist

Introduction: Forum on Masculinities, Violences, Variations, and Visions

Debate and dialogue within the humanities and social sciences concerning the concept of masculinity/masculinities has been widespread for two decades. We use this edition of a Universitas Forum as a way to present and discuss the intriguing theoretical complexity of the concept of masculinity/masculinities. This forum is organized into three sections, focusing respectively on its relationship with the issue of violence, variations in forms and processes, and visions for transformations

Superman is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way

From a brilliant and witty comic book aficionado, this “scholarly but lively narrative” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the links between Jews and the iconic superheroes of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1410/thumbnail.jp

Hegel\u27s Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity, and Modernity

Focusing on Hegel\u27s political philosophy, this text demonstrates the unifying role played by the doctrine of the collective historical social consciousness. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1405/thumbnail.jp

A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity

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Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity

Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity is an international collection of new essays on Jewish men by academics and activists, rabbis and secularists, men and women, on personal experience and congregational life, gendered bodies and Jewish minds, poetry and prayer, literature and film, and more. Simultaneously particular and universal, all engagingly illuminate how masculinities and Judaisms engage each other in gendered Jewishness - Provided by publisherhttps://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/1409/thumbnail.jp

Endophthalmitis: current approaches to diagnosis and therapy

Early recognition and prompt management are important in reducing visual loss from infectious endophthalmitis. Increased awareness of the predisposing factors for postoperative endophthalmitis have led to more widespread use of preventive measures during anterior segment surgery. The use of less toxic intraocular antibiotics may reduce retinal damage and routine administration of intravitreal corticosteroids will reduce the tissue destruction produced by the intraocular inflammatory response. The use of vitrectomy in endophthalmitis management is being studied in a randomized, prospective study. Newer, less toxic, systemic antifungal medications which can be used alone or in conjunction with local ocular therapy for fungal endophthalmitis are available. Current diagnostic and management approaches are reviewed