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An offer we can't refuse : the Mafia in the mind of America / George De Stefano.
LIBRA - Special HV6446 .D43 2006
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- Author/Creator:
- De Stefano, George, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mafia--United States.
- Mafia.
- Italian Americans--Social conditions.
- Italian Americans.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Faber and Faber, 2006.
- Summary:
- The author takes a close look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America, exploring how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar today.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-418) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0571211577
- OCLC:
- 60420173
- Publisher Number:
- 9780571211579
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