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

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"[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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cavallero, Jonathan J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Motion picture producers and directors.
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Americains d'origine italienne dans l'industrie cinematographique.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema > États-Unis.
Ethnicite au cinema.
Americains d'origine italienne au cinema.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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