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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calabretta-Sajder, Ryan, editor.

Gravano, Alan J., editor.

Series:

Media, culture, and the arts

Media, Culture, and the Arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian Americans in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781793611543

1793611548

OCLC:

1164376748