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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2011]
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| Summary: | "[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 even denied their background ... Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted."--Book cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252093197 0252093194 1283097524 9781283097529 025203614X 9780252036149 0252078071 9780252078071 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |