Research Catalog

Title

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers [electronic resource] : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino / Jonathan J. Cavallero.

Author

Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xii, 219 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers (Online)

Alternative Title

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers (Online)

Subject

• Italian Americans in motion pictures
• Ethnicity in motion pictures
• Motion picture producers and directors > United States
• Italian Americans in the motion picture industry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2011008424

OCLC

ssj0000543906

Author

Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Title

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers [electronic resource] : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino / Jonathan J. Cavallero.

Imprint

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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