Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino / Jonathan J. Cavallero. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. - xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.

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.

The roles of ethnicity and cultural identity in the films of Italian American film directors

9780252036149 (cloth) 9780252078071 (pbk.)

2011008424


Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.

PN 1995.9 / C377h 2011

791.43