Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto, editors.
Fioretti, Daniele, editor.; Orsitto, Fulvio, editor.
2023
PN1995.9.I73 I83 2023
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Title Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto, editors.
ISBN 9783031064654 electronic book
3031064658 electronic book
303106464X
9783031064647
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06465-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-06465-4 doi
Call Number PN1995.9.I73 I83 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43652951073
Summary "This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the stereotype of the Italian American gangster (Little Caesar, Scarface) to its re-definition (Mean Streets), along with a peculiar depiction of Italian American masculinity (Marty, Raging Bull). For many years, Italian migration studies in the United States have commented on the way cinema contributed to the creation of an identifiable Italian American identity. More recently, scholars have recognized the existence of a more nuanced plurality of Italian American identities that reflects social and historical elements, class backgrounds, and the relationship with other ethnic minorities. The second part of the book challenges the most common stereotypes of Italian Americanness: food (Big Night) and Mafia, deconstructing the criminal tropes that have contributed to shaping the perception of Italian-American mafiosi in The Funeral, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and the first two chapters of the Godfather trilogy. At the crossroads of the fields of Italian Culture, Italian American Culture, Film Studies, and Migration Studies, Italian Americans in Film is written not only for undergraduate and graduate students but also for scholars who teach courses on Italian American Cinema and Visual Culture." -- Provided by the publisher.
Note Includes index.
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Added Author Fioretti, Daniele, editor.
Orsitto, Fulvio, editor.
Series Italian and Italian American studies.
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Introduction / Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto
Part I. Establishing Italian American Identities.
'I Don't Do Business with Dagoes' : Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer's Vendetta / Daniele Fioretti
Ask the 'Dust Jacket'. Robert Towne's Film Adaptation of John Fante's Ask the Dust / Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto
Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone : Little Caesar and Scarface / Philip Balma
Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann's Marty / Gloria Pastorino
The Italian American Prizefighter : Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull / Irene Lottini Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality / Fulvio Orsitto
Part II. Challenging Italian American Identities (and Their Representations).
Abel Ferrara's The Funeral : Taking Aim at the Stereotype / Luca Barattoni
Good Food is Close to God : Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night / Felice Italo Beneduce
The Eclipse of the Godfather's Garden : From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia / Elena Past
GoodFellas. When the 'Kid from Little Italy' Meets the 'Oklahoma Kid' / Fulvio Orsitto
Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster / Sabrina Ovan
Documentary and Italian American Identity : Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti's Family Films / Andy Rice.

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