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1 online resource (xv, 353 pages) |
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Italian and Italian American Studies |
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Italian and Italian American studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
| Summary |
Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffiths Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, The Immigrant Experience, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: Silent Films (which analyses some of Griffiths early films and Barkers The Italian, 1915), and Revising Gender Perspectives, which includes chapters focusing on single films such as Dmytryks Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiels Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacios Amexicano (2007) and survey essays that discuss the Italian American celluloid closet and some of Savocas films. Part II, Italian Americans in Other Media, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality. The types of media examined in this section include television and graphic novels as well as puppetry, Instagram, and Internet memes. Part III contains interviews with Italian American scholars, movie directors, and performers. Together, the contributions to this collection demonstrate the vitality, mutation, and persistence of Italian Americanness in visual media. Daniele Fioretti is Associate Teaching Professor of Italian at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature (2017) and Carte di fabbrica. La narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013). He co-edited the book Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022). Fulvio Orsitto is Director of the Georgetown University campus in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American literature and cinema, and has edited and co-edited ten volumes, including Pasolini: American Perspectives (2015), TOTalitarian ARTs: The Visual Arts, Fascism(s) and Mass-society (2017), and Italian Americans in Film: Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities (2022) |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
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Immigrants in motion pictures.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fioretti, Daniele.
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Orsitto, Fulvio.
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| ISBN |
9783031472114 |
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303147211X |
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