Italian Americans on Screen

Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Alan J. Gravano (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1154-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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 Cinema

Colleen Ryan

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

Jonathan Cavallero

Ryan Coogler’s Creed: Conflict and Collaboration between Two Communities

Alan Gravano

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

The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans

Giuseppe 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 Sopranos

Francesco 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 Networks

Jessica 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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Media, Culture, and the Arts
Co-Autor	Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, Jonathan J. Cavallero
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 228 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-1154-8 / 1793611548
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1154-3 / 9781793611543
Zustand	Neuware