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This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing new intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, contributors establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen.
List of contents
Introduction
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan Gravano
Part I: What is Italian-American Cinema?
What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist CinemaColleen Ryan
Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci's and Campbell Scott's Big NightJonathan Cavallero
Questioning the Italian-American Palooka: From Definition of Race to Disabilities in Avildsen's Rocky, Coogler's Creed, and Caple Jr's Creed II Alan Gravano
Part II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen
The Italian Pursuit of HollywoodMary Ann McDonald Carolan
Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian AmericansGiuseppe Sorrentino
Part III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections
Who's Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans and the 'Real' Italians in The SopranosFrancesco Chianese
Part IV: Italian Newspapers, Italian Cinema, and 2.0 Media
Serializing Italian American Futurities Sarah Salter
Cinema Paradiso: Toronto's Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution NetworksJessica Leonora Whitehead and Paul S. Moore
Conversing about National Attributes Online: The Case of Italy and the U.S.Giacomo Sproccati
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Alan J. Gravano is assistant professor and writing center director at Rocky Mountain University.
