Francis Ford Coppola''s the Godfather Trilogy

Klappentext The essays in this volume reexamine Coppola's The Godfather trilogy from a variety of perspectives. Zusammenfassung Among the most elaborate examples of crime film! the films in The Godfather trilogy provide a complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning almost the whole century. In six essays! written especially for this volume! The Godfather trilogy is reexamined from a variety of perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Fearful a-symmetries: violence as history in the Godfather films Nick Browne; 1. If history has taught us anything ... Francis Coppola, Paramount Studios, and The Godfather Parts I, II and III Jon Lewis; 2. The Godfather and the mythology of Mafia Alessandro Camon; 3. The representation of ethnicity in The Godfather Vera Dika; 4. Ideology and genre in the Godfather films Glenn Man; 5. Family ceremonies: or, opera in The Godfather trilogy Naomi Greene; Filmography; Reviews of the 'Godgather' trilogy; Select bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Browne, Nick (University of California Browne
• Assisted by: Nick Browne (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.1999
• EAN: 9780521559508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55950-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Film Handbooks; Cambridge Film Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet