TY - BOOK AU - Cavallero,Jonathan J. TI - Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino AV - PN1995.9.I73 U1 - 791.43/08951073 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Italian Americans in motion pictures KW - Ethnicity in motion pictures KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - United States KW - Italian Americans in the motion picture industry KW - Américains d'origine italienne au cinéma KW - Ethnicité au cinéma KW - Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma KW - États-Unis KW - Américains d'origine italienne dans l'industrie cinématographique KW - ART KW - Film & Video KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - History & Criticism KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-212) and index; 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 N2 - "[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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=569757 ER -