Italian Americans In Film

Author : Daniele Fioretti,Fulvio Orsitto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031064654

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Italian Americans in Film by Daniele Fioretti,Fulvio Orsitto Pdf

This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the stereotype of the Italian American gangster (Little Caesar, Scarface) to its re-definition (Mean Streets), along with a peculiar depiction of Italian American masculinity (Marty, Raging Bull). For many years, Italian migration studies in the United States have commented on the way cinema contributed to the creation of an identifiable Italian American identity. More recently, scholars have recognized the existence of a more nuanced plurality of Italian American identities that reflects social and historical elements, class backgrounds, and the relationship with other ethnic minorities. The second part of the book challenges the most common stereotypes of Italian Americanness: food (Big Night) and Mafia, deconstructing the criminal tropes that have contributed to shaping the perception of Italian-American mafiosi in The Funeral, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, and the first two chapters of the Godfather trilogy. At the crossroads of the fields of Italian Culture, Italian American Culture, Film Studies, and Migration Studies, Italian Americans in Film is written not only for undergraduate and graduate students but also for scholars who teach courses on Italian American Cinema and Visual Culture.

Author : Ryan Calabretta-Sajder,Alan J. Gravano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793611550

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Italian Americans on Screen by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder,Alan J. Gravano Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949776769

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Oxford Bibliographies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Casillo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802091130

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Gangster Priest by Robert Casillo Pdf

Widely acclaimed as America's greatest living film director, Martin Scorsese is also, some argue, the pre-eminent Italian American artist. Although he has treated various subjects in over three decades, his most sustained filmmaking and the core of his achievement consists of five films on Italian American subjects - Who's That Knocking at My Door?, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, and Casino - as well as the documentary Italianamerican. In Gangster Priest Robert Casillo examines these films in the context of the society, religion, culture, and history of Southern Italy, from which the majority of Italian Americans, including Scorsese, derive. Casillo argues that these films cannot be fully appreciated either thematically or formally without understanding the various facets of Italian American ethnicity, as well as the nature of Italian American cinema and the difficulties facing assimilating third-generation artists. Forming a unified whole, Scorsese's Italian American films offer what Casillo views as a prolonged meditation on the immigrant experience, the relationship between Italian America and Southern Italy, the conflicts between the ethnic generations, and the formation and development of Italian American ethnicity (and thus identity) on American soil through the generations. Raised as a Catholic and deeply imbued with Catholic values, Scorsese also deals with certain forms of Southern Italian vernacular religion, which have left their imprint not only on Scorsese himself but also on the spiritually tormented characters of his Italian American films. Casillo also shows how Scorsese interrogates the Southern Italian code of masculine honour in his exploration of the Italian American underworld or Mafia, and through his implicitly Catholic optic, discloses its thoroughgoing and longstanding opposition to Christianity. Bringing a wealth of scholarship and insight into Scorsese's work, Casillo's study will captivate readers interested in the director's magisterial artistry, the rich social history of Southern Italy, Italian American ethnicity, and the sociology and history of the Mafia in both Sicily and the United States.

Author : Daniele Fioretti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031472114

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Italian Americans in Film and Other Media by Daniele Fioretti Pdf

Author : Tom Santopietro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493068869

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The Godfather Effect by Tom Santopietro Pdf

Fifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind this ongoing global phenomenon. Packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes from all three Godfather films, Tom Santopietro explores the historical origins of the Mob and why they thrived in America, how Italian-Americans are portrayed in the media, and how a saga of murderous gangsters captivated audiences around the globe. Laced with stories about Brando, Pacino, and Sinatra, and interwoven with a funny and poignant memoir about the author's own experiences growing up with an Italian name in an Anglo world of private schools and country clubs, The Godfather Effect is a book for film lovers, observers of American life, and Italians of all nationalities.

Author : Jonathan J. Cavallero
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252036149

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Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers by Jonathan J. Cavallero Pdf

"[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community,' others have ignored or even denied their background . . . Cavallero's exploration of the films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola,and Tarantino demonstrates how immigrant Italians fought prejudice, how later generations positioned themselves in relation to their predecessors, and how the American cinema, usually seen as a cultural instituion that works to assimlate, has also served as a forum where assimilation was resisted." -- Book cover.

Author : Anna Camaiti Hostert,Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060024869

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Screening Ethnicity by Anna Camaiti Hostert,Anthony Julian Tamburri Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Remarkable for the variety and sophistication of the approaches that it brings to its subject matter, SCREENING ETHNICITY makes a powerful argument for the validity, indeed the necessity, of Italian American cinema as an object of study. By including the concepts of race, gender, and social class along with the more obvious themes of identity and ethnicity, this collection sheds new light on the careers of Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Cimino, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and the recently canonized David Chase, while calling attention to the achievements of such lesser known figures as Abel Ferrara, Stanley Tucci, Mariarosy Calleri, and Nancy Savoca. "It comes as no suprise that there is so much smart thinking and writing contained in this book" Bill Tonelli, Rolling Stone."

Author : Giuliana Muscio
Publisher : John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College C
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0970340362

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Mediated Ethnicity by Giuliana Muscio Pdf

This collection offers a fresh re-reading and re-imagining of Italian Americans in film, from actors to directors, from subject to agency. The trans-Atlantic discourse that emerges from these keenly insightful essays offers a guidepost for future analyses. As we come to understand the evolving paradigm of Italian Americans, whose cinematic representation has long been object of discussion and debate, Mediated Ethnicity constitutes a prismatic lens through which the contemporary viewer/reader may re-discover the cultural positioning of Italians in America. - John Tintori Associate Arts Professor and Chair, Graduate Film Program New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216105596

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Italian Americans by Eric Martone Pdf

The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.

Author : Giorgio Bertellini
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253221285

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Italy in Early American Cinema by Giorgio Bertellini Pdf

Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic—the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Taking its cue from a picturesque stage backdrop from The Godfather Part II, Italy in Early American Cinema shows how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers. Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.

Author : Anthony Julian Tamburri,Paolo Giordano,Fred L. Gardaphe,Fred L. Gardaphé
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1557530084

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From the Margin by Anthony Julian Tamburri,Paolo Giordano,Fred L. Gardaphe,Fred L. Gardaphé Pdf

This anthology, hailed as a significant contribution to American ethnic studies, features the short stories, poems, and plays of more than thirty Italian American artists. Drawing on their individual and collective backgrounds and experience, these writers convey another vision of American fife. A section of critical essays by established scholars in the field, with topics ranging from specific works and authors to broad literary movements and film studies, analyzes the Italian American phenomenon and the role of ethnicity in literature. The extensive bibliography treats creative works, critical essays, and films dealing with the Italian American experience and promises to be an invaluable research tool.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610699952

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Italian Americans by Eric Martone Pdf

The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.

Author : William Connell,Stanislao Pugliese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135046705

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The Routledge History of Italian Americans by William Connell,Stanislao Pugliese Pdf

The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular culture. This landmark volume offers a clear and accessible overview of work in the growing academic field of Italian American Studies. Rich illustrations bring the story to life, drawing out the aspects of Italian American history and culture that make this ethnic group essential to the American experience.

Author : Salvatore J. LaGumina,Frank J. Cavaioli,Salvatore Primeggia,Joseph A. Varacalli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135583330

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The Italian American Experience by Salvatore J. LaGumina,Frank J. Cavaioli,Salvatore Primeggia,Joseph A. Varacalli Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.