Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto

• Autore: Fioretti Daniele
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.4308951073
• Soggetto topico: Italian Americans in motion pictures; National characteristics in motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): OrsittoFulvio
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Shows Cited -- Part I: Establishing Italian American Identities -- Chapter 2: 'I Don't Do Business with Dagoes': Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer's Vendetta -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Ask the 'Dust Jacket'. Robert Towne's Film Adaptation of John Fante's Ask the Dust -- John Fante: Writer and Screenwriter. -- Robert Towne: Screenwriter and Director. -- Arturo Bandini: "Lover of Man and Beast Alike". -- Camilla Lopez: A Mirror for Ethnic Rediscovery. -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 4: Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface -- An Historical Perspective, Pre-Code Groundbreakers -- Remakes, Homages, and Reflections in Contemporary Culture -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 5: Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann's Marty -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 6: The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull -- Ethnic New York City -- 'The Brawler' -- Return to New York City -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 7: Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality -- Martin Scorsese: The Trifecta, the Mise-en-Abyme, and the Construction-en-Abyme -- Charlie Cappa: Mirrors, Windows, and the Narcissus' Myth -- Mirrors -- Windows -- The Narcissus Myth. -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Part II: Challenging Italian American Identities (and Their Representations) -- Chapter 8: Abel Ferrara's The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype -- The Funeral in Perspective -- Historical Context -- A Tragedy of Moralism: Mafia and Its Imagined Communities -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films Cited. ; Chapter 9: Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night -- Primo -- Pascal -- Secondo -- Cristiano -- Gabriella -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: The Eclipse of the Godfather's Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia -- Oranges and Olive Oil / Agromafia -- The Garden State / Suburban Mafia -- Westward Expansion / Money Mafia -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 11: GoodFellas. When the 'Kid from Little Italy' Meets the 'Oklahoma Kid' -- The 'Kid from Little Italy' and His Cinematic Universe. -- Windows, Symbolism, and Stylistic Devices -- Windows -- Symbolism and Stylistic Devices -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 12: Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 13: Documentary and Italian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti's Family Films -- Making Time Exposure (2012) -- The New World of Film Is the Known World: Filming Family Portrait Sittings in the 1970s -- Conclusion: A Personal Time Exposure -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Italian Americans in Film
• ISBN: 3-031-06465-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910633930103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Italian and Italian American studies.