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Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto
| Italian Americans in film : establishing and challenging Italian American identities / / Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto |
| Autore | Fioretti Daniele |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.4308951073 |
| Collana | Italian and Italian American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Italian Americans in motion pictures
National characteristics in motion pictures |
| ISBN | 3-031-06465-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910633930103321 |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Italian Americans in Film and Other Media : The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age
| Italian Americans in Film and Other Media : The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age |
| Autore | Fioretti Daniele |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | OrsittoFulvio |
| Collana | Italian and Italian American Studies |
| ISBN | 3-031-47211-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910842289203321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature : Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi / / by Daniele Fioretti
| Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature : Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi / / by Daniele Fioretti |
| Autore | Fioretti Daniele |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 212 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.04 |
| Collana | Italian and Italian American Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
European literature Fiction Twentieth-Century Literature European Literature |
| ISBN | 3-319-46553-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Theoretical Landscape -- Chapter 2. Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Contradictions of Utopia -- Chapter 3. Italo Calvino: A Reasonable Utopia -- Chapter 4. The World as a Marsh: Dystopia and Utopia in Edoardo Sanguineti -- Chapter 5. Utopia and Hybridization in Paolo Volponi -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164982603321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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