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Nov. 8th, 2011 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielAnyone know any good critical or secondary sources on gangster/Mafia fiction? I can recommend general sources on crime fiction, but am stuck on anything more specific. Sub-sub-genre: Mario Puzo critical studies.
And a question from a friend: "Do you know of any British sitcoms featuring a widowed/single father with children? All I can think of are American examples, such as Full House and The Nanny (and they stopped running in the 90s). Similarly, I can't think of any British action/drama stories involving single fathers, whereas in the US there is Supernatural, Eureka, both still running, and Veronica Mars ran until 2007, so that one counts, I've decided. Is it just less common as a set-up in Britain?"
(We already have Single Father.)
ETA: You guys are amazing.
And a question from a friend: "Do you know of any British sitcoms featuring a widowed/single father with children? All I can think of are American examples, such as Full House and The Nanny (and they stopped running in the 90s). Similarly, I can't think of any British action/drama stories involving single fathers, whereas in the US there is Supernatural, Eureka, both still running, and Veronica Mars ran until 2007, so that one counts, I've decided. Is it just less common as a set-up in Britain?"
(We already have Single Father.)
ETA: You guys are amazing.
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Date: 2011-11-08 01:44 pm (UTC)But that was drama rather than a sitcom.
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Date: 2011-11-08 01:44 pm (UTC)ETA: To Serve Them All My Days has PJ as a widowed father for much of it.
ETA2: And there were three episodes of the recent Doctor Who which featured either a single father or someone who was functioning as a single father for the duration of the episode.
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Date: 2011-11-08 02:16 pm (UTC)Falling Skies was another where the main protagonist is a bereaved father (with three sons) if you're wanting to add to the pile of US dramas where it's more common.
Yes, Maria in SJA was being brought up by her Dad.
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Date: 2011-11-08 02:24 pm (UTC)Oh, and there's Rudy's Rare Records (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n58x4), though Richie went off to uni or something in the last series.
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