Format:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
ISBN:
9780252036149
Content:
Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino with a focus on what the films reveal about each director's view on Italian American identities. Whereas Capra's films highlight similarities between immigrant characters and WASP Americans, Scorsese accepts his ethnic heritage but also sees it as confining. Many of Coppola's films provide a nostalgic treatment of Italian American identity, with little criticism of the culture's more negative aspects. And while Savoca's movies reveal her artful ability to recognize how ethnic, gender, and class identities overlap, Tarantino's films exhibit a playfully postmodern engagement with Italian American ethnicity.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Frank Capra: Ethnic Denial and Its Impossibility -- 2. Martin Scorses: Confined and Defined by Ethnicity -- 3. Nancy Savoca: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender -- 4. Francis Ford Coppola: Ethnic Nostalgia in the Godfather Trilogy -- 5. Quentin Tarantino: Ethnicity and the Postmodern -- Conclusion: Ancestral Legacies and History's Lessons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Frank Capra: Ethnic Denial and Its Impossibility""; ""2. Martin Scorses: Confined and Defined by Ethnicity""; ""3. Nancy Savoca: Ethnicity, Class, and Gender""; ""4. Francis Ford Coppola: Ethnic Nostalgia in the Godfather Trilogy""; ""5. Quentin Tarantino: Ethnicity and the Postmodern""; ""Conclusion: Ancestral Legacies and History's Lessons ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252093197
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252036149
Additional Edition:
Print version Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino
Language:
English
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