Italian Americans in Film and Other Media : The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age

• Autore: Fioretti Daniele
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Altri autori: OrsittoFulvio
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Works Cited -- Films Shows Cited -- TV Shows Cited -- Part I: The Immigrant Experience -- Chapter 2: Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 3: The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema -- Italians and Italian Culture in the United States -- Migration and Silent American Cinema -- Early American Cinema and The Black Hand (1906) -- Italians in Hollywood -- The Italian (1915) -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk's Rendition of Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- Chapter 5: A Sting from the Past: Assimilation and Healing Rituals in Helen de Michiel's Tarantella (1995) -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio's Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) -- Researching the Queer in Italian Americana9 -- Theoretical Framework -- I. Nunzio's Second Cousin (1994) -- From Gay Bashing to Tolerance Teaching -- Dinner at the Randazzos -- II. Kiss Me, Guido (1997) -- III. Mambo Italiano (2003) -- Space and Place in Mambo Italiano -- Concluding Thoughts -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 7: From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca's Films -- Works Cited -- Films & -- TV Series Cited -- Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano (2007) -- Preliminary Notes -- Theoretical Framework -- Migration and the Border as Themes -- Film Analysis. ; Bruno Transisi and Ignacio: From Pervasive Mistrust to the Collapse of Trust and Obsession -- Bruno Sammartino: From Large to Larger-than-Life -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Part II: Italian Americans in Other Media -- Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson's The Family (2013) -- Works Cited -- Films and Performances Cited -- Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back -- Puppet and Madness in the Broader Aesthetic Mediascape -- The Emigrated Pupo and Italian American Film -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television -- Preliminary Notes on the Viewing Experience -- The Early Years of Television -- The Late 1950s and 1960s -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- TV Series and Shows Cited -- Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the 1990s -- Shifting Stereotypes in the 1970s -- The 1980s and 1990s -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- TV Series and Shows Cited -- Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) -- From the Sopranos to the Barones and the New 'Non-ethnic Ethnics' -- Non-fictional Italian American Characters: Reality Shows, Chefs, and Entertainers -- Works Cited -- Films Cited -- TV Series and Shows Cited -- Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC's Helena Bertinelli -- A Matter of Terminology -- The Medium -- The Superhero -- The Divinities of Sequential Art -- Diana -- The Huntress -- Epithet -- Isolation and Darkness -- Motherhood and Children -- Costume -- Triads -- Furies and Camilla -- Rex Nemorensis -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15: CNN's Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Shows Cited. ; Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme -- Inception -- Diffusion -- Modification -- Declination -- Dormancy -- Works Cited -- Films and TV Series Cited -- Part III: Interviews -- Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel -- Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale -- Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino -- Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Italian Americans in Film and Other Media
• ISBN: 3-031-47211-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910842289203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Italian and Italian American Studies