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Italian Americans in filmestablishing and challenging Italian American identities /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Italian Americans in filmedited by Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto.
Reminder of title:	establishing and challenging Italian American identities /
other author:	Fioretti, Daniele.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xxvi, 283 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06465-4
ISBN:	9783031064654$q(electronic bk.)

Italian Americans in filmestablishing and challenging Italian American identities /
Italian Americans in filmestablishing and challenging Italian American identities /[electronic resource] :edited by Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xxvi, 283 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Italian and Italian American studies,2635-294X. - Italian and Italian American studies..

1. Introduction -- 2. 'I Don't Do Business with Dagoes': Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer's Vendetta -- 3. Ask the 'Dust Jacket'. Robert Towne's Film Adaptation of John Fante's Ask the Dust -- 4. Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface -- 5. Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann's Marty -- 6. The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull -- 7. Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality -- 8. The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype -- 9. Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night -- 10. The Eclipse of the Godfather's Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia -- 11. Goodfellas. When the 'Kid from Little Italy' Meets the 'Oklahoma Kid' -- 12. Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster -- 13. Documentary and Italian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti's Family Films.

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. Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature - Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature. Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.

ISBN: 9783031064654$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-06465-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Italian Americans in motion pictures.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.I73 / I83 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43652951073

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