Cavallero, Jonathan J.

Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino / Jonathan J. Cavallero. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011. - 219 p. : ill.

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.

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Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.

PN1995.9 / C376 H 2011