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Informationen zum Autor Fred L. Gardaphe directs the Italian-American Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture, Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer, and Moustache Pete is Dead!: Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print. Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Studies the cultural figure of the gangster, and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity in the United States. This book shows how the gangster can be seen as a 'trickster' figure and how the gangster has served as that figure in American culture by showing what is and is not authentically American. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart One Romancing the GangsterChapter 1 Origins of an ArchetypeChapter 2 The Gangster as Culture Hero: Mario Puzo and Francis CoppolaPart Two Realizing the GangsterChapter 3 The Truth about Gangsters: Gay Talese and Ben MorrealeChapter 4 Rough Boys: The Gangsters of Martin Scorsese and Michael CiminoPart Three Reinventing the GangsterChapter 5 The Gangster as Cultural Critic: Giose Rimanelli and Frank LentricchiaChapter 6 Female Masculinity and the Gangster: Louisa ErmelinoChapter 7 The Gangster as Public Intellectual: Anthony Valerio and Don DeLilloChapter 8 Two Versions of the Gangster as Contemporary Trickster: David Chase and Tony ArdizzoneChapter 9 Looking for a Few New Men: Chazz Palmenteri and Richard VetereChapter 10 From Macho to Zero: Redesigning Italian American MasculinitiesConclusion
