TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cavallero,Jonathan J.
TI  - Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino 
SN  - 9780252093197
AV  - PN1995 .H655 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Italian Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Ethnicity in motion pictures
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors
KW  - United States
KW  - Italian Americans in the motion picture industry
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; Frank Capra : ethnic denial and its impossibility --; Martin Scorsese : confined and defined by ethnicity --; Nancy Savoca : ethnicity, class, and gender --; Francis Ford Coppola : ethnic nostalgia in The godfather trilogy --; Quentin Tarantino : ethnicity and the postmodern --; Conclusion : ancestral legacies and history's lessons; 2; b
N2  - "[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
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