The Godfather and American Culture - How the Corleones Became Our Gang

A comprehensive look at a classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination.

About the author

Chris Messenger is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner and Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction; and is the coauthor, with Chet Walker, of Long Time Coming: A Black Athlete's Coming-of-Age in America.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Messenger, Christian K. Messenger
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2002
• EAN: 9780791453582
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5358-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Italian/America; Suny Italian/American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies