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Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Table of Contents
Introduction

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan Gravano



Part I: What is Italian-American Cinema?



  1. What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist Cinema
Colleen Ryan

  1. Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci’s and Campbell Scott’s Big Night
Jonathan Cavallero

  1. Ryan Coogler’s Creed: Conflict and Collaboration between Two Communities
Alan Gravano

Part II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen

  1. The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

  1. Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans
Giuseppe Sorrentino

Part III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections

  1. Who’s Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

  1. Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans and the ‘Real’ Italians in The Sopranos
Francesco Chianese

Part IV: Italian Newspapers, Italian Cinema, and 2.0 Media

  1. Serializing Italian American Futurities
Sarah Salter

  1. Cinema Paradiso: Toronto’s Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks
Jessica Leonora Whitehead and Paul S. Moore

  1. Conversing about National Attributes Online: The Case of Italy and the U.S.
Giacomo Sproccati

Index

About the Contributors

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: 04/02/2021
      ISBN13: 9781793611543, 978-1793611543
      ISBN10: 1793611548

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction

      Ryan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan Gravano



      Part I: What is Italian-American Cinema?



      1. What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist Cinema
      Colleen Ryan

      1. Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci’s and Campbell Scott’s Big Night
      Jonathan Cavallero

      1. Ryan Coogler’s Creed: Conflict and Collaboration between Two Communities
      Alan Gravano

      Part II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen

      1. The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood
      Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

      1. Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans
      Giuseppe Sorrentino

      Part III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections

      1. Who’s Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends
      Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

      1. Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans and the ‘Real’ Italians in The Sopranos
      Francesco Chianese

      Part IV: Italian Newspapers, Italian Cinema, and 2.0 Media

      1. Serializing Italian American Futurities
      Sarah Salter

      1. Cinema Paradiso: Toronto’s Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks
      Jessica Leonora Whitehead and Paul S. Moore

      1. Conversing about National Attributes Online: The Case of Italy and the U.S.
      Giacomo Sproccati

      Index

      About the Contributors

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