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Autore |
Messenger Christian K. <1943-> |
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Titolo |
The Godfather and American culture [[electronic resource] ] : how the Corleones became "our gang" / / Chris Messenger |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8870-5 |
0-585-47102-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Italian/American Culture |
SUNY series in Italian/American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Corleone family (Fictitious characters) |
Criminals in literature |
Families in literature |
Italian Americans in literature |
Mafia in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-325) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Popular Fiction Criticism and American Careers -- Popular Fiction: Taste, Sentiment, and the Culture of Criticism -- Mario Puzo: An American Writer’s Career -- Reading The Godfather : Critical Strategies and Theoretical Models -- Bakhtin and Puzo: Authority as the Family Business -- The Godfather and the Ethnic Ensemble -- Barthes and Puzo: The Authority of the Signifier -- Positioning The Godfather in American Narrative Study -- The Godfather and Melodrama: Authorizing the Corleones as American Heroes -- The Corleones as “Our Gang”: The Godfather Interrogated by Doctorow’s Ragtime -- The American Inadvertent Epic: The Godfather Copied -- The Godfather Sung by The Sopranos -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mario Puzo's The Godfather is an American pop phenomenon whose driving force is reflected not only in book sales and cable television movie marathons but also in such related works as the hit television series The Sopranos. In The Godfather and American Culture, Chris Messenger offers an important and comprehensive study of this classic |
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