Italian Americans on Screen

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder; Alan J. Gravano

doi:10.5771/9781793611550

Summary

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1154-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1155-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 243
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1. 1 What is Italian about Sofia Coppola?: Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist Cinema No access
2. 2 Edible Ethnicity: Italian American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci’s and Campbell Scott’s Big Night No access
3. 3 Questioning the Italian American Palooka: Race and Disability in the Rocky and the Creed Series No access
1. 4 The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood: Pursuit of Happyness (Muccino, 2006) No access
2. 5 Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans No access
1. 6 Who’s Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends No access
2. 7 Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans and “Real” Italians in The Sopranos No access
1. 8 Il Bambino in Pericolo: Serializing Italian American Futurity No access
2. 9 Cinema Paradiso: Toronto’s Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks No access
3. 10 Conversing about National Attributes Online: The Case of Italy and the United States No access
Index No access Pages 229 - 238
About the Contributors No access Pages 239 - 243