Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino / Jonathan J. Cavallero.

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Cavallero, Jonathan J

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780252093197
0252093194
1283097524
9781283097529
025203614X
9780252036149
0252078071
9780252078071

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hollywood's Italian American filmmakersDDC classification:

791.43/08951073 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.I73

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Contents:

Introduction -- Frank Capra : ethnic denial and its impossibility -- Martin Scorsese : confined and defined by ethnicity -- Nancy Savoca : ethnicity, class, and gender -- Francis Ford Coppola : ethnic nostalgia in The godfather trilogy -- Quentin Tarantino : ethnicity and the postmodern -- Conclusion : ancestral legacies and history's lessons.

Summary: "[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community, ' others have ignored or even denied their background ... Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted."--Book cover.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-212) and index.

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"[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community, ' others have ignored or even denied their background ... Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted."--Book cover.

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