TY - BOOK AU - Cavallero,Jonathan J. TI - Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino SN - 9780252036149 (cloth) AV - PN 1995.9 C377h 2011 U1 - 791.43 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 N1 - 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 N2 - The roles of ethnicity and cultural identity in the films of Italian American film directors ER -