Research Catalog

Title

Italian Americans on screen : challenging the past, re-theorizing the future / [edited by] Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano.

Publication

• Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan
• Gravano, Alan J.

Description

x, 243 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

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."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Media, Culture, and the Arts

Uniform Title

Media, culture, and the arts.

Subject

Italian Americans in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I What is Italian American Cinema? -- 1. What Is Italian About Sofia Coppola?: Tracing Ethnicity In Third-Generation Feminist Cinema / Colleen M. Ryan -- 2. Edible Ethnicity: Italian American Representations, Cinematic Style, And Ethnic Commodification In Stanley Tucci's And Campbell Scott's Big Night / Jonathan J. Cavallero -- 3. Questioning The Italian American Palooka: Race And Disability In The Rocky And The Creed Series / Alan J. Gravano -- pt. II Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen -- 4. The Italian Pursuit Of Hollywood: Pursuit Of Happyness (Muccino, 2006) / Mary Ann McDonald Carolan -- 5. Comedies Of Identity: Italian Cinema And Television Narrating Italian Americans / Giuseppe Sorrentino -- pt. III Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections -- 6. Who's Laughing At Whom? Masculinity, Humor, And Italian American Lives On Mainstream Television: Friends / Ryan Calabretta-Sajder -- 7. Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans And "Real" Italians In The Sopranos / Francesco Chianese -- pt. IV Italian Newspapers, Italian Cinema, and 2.0 Media -- 8. II Bambino In Pericolo: Serializing Italian American Futurity / Sarah H. Salter -- 9. Cinema Paradiso: Toronto's Italian Language Cinemas And Distribution Networks / Paul S. Moore -- 10. Conversing About National Attributes Online: The Case Of Italy And The United States / Giacomo Sproccati.

Call Number

MFL 21-2161

ISBN

• 9781793611543
• 1793611548

OCLC

1164376748

Title

Italian Americans on screen : challenging the past, re-theorizing the future / [edited by] Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Media, Culture, and the Arts

Media, culture, and the arts.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan, editor.

Gravano, Alan J., editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 21-2161