Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino

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

"[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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavallero, Jonathan J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Ethnicity in motion pictures
Italian Americans in motion pictures
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry
Motion picture producers and directors
United States
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Table of 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.

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