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Re-viewing Italian Americana : generalities and specificities on cinema / Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.I73 T36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tamburri, Anthony Julian.
- Series:
- Saggistica ; 5.
- Saggistica ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian Americans in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bordighera Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Tamburri takes a look back at the representation of the Italian and Italian American in the United States' film world. He includes some specific readings of four distinct examples of recent modes of production and/or interpretation. Films discussed in this section are: "The House I Live In, The Godfather, Golden Door" and three short films as example of an unsung genre.
- Contents:
- Italian Americans and the media : cinema, video, television
- Frank Sinatra & notions of "tolerance" : The house I live in
- Michael Corleone's tie : Francis Ford Coppola's The godfather and the rhetoric of antinomy
- Old world versus new. Or, opposites attract : Emanuele Crialese's Nuovomondo
- Italian/American briefs : revisiting the short subject
- Conclusion, sort of.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1599540207
- OCLC:
- 767566277
- Publisher Number:
- 99948612735
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