An offer we can't refuse : the Mafia in the mind of America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Stefano, George, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Faber and Faber, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Italians to Italian Americans : escaping the "southern problem"
  • The Mafia : Mediterranean menace, American myth
  • A genre is born : the appeal of pure power
  • Don Corleone was my grandfather
  • From mean streets to suburban meadow : The Sopranos rewrites the genre
  • Act like a man : sex and gender in the Mafia myth
  • Moulanyans, Medigahns, and wonder bread wops : race and racism on-screen and off
  • Cultural holocaust or national myth? : the politics of antidefamation.