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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavallero, Jonathan J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.