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  • Italian Americans in Film

    Establishing and Challenging Italian American Identities

    Edited by Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how Italian Americans have been represented in cinema, from the depiction of Italian migration in New Orleans in the 1890s (Vendetta) to the transition from first- to second-generation immigrants (Ask the Dust), and from the establishment of the stereotype of the Italian American gangster (Little Caesar, Scarface) to its re-definition (Mean Streets), along with a peculiar ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Italian Americans in Film and Other Media

    The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age

    Edited by Daniele Fioretti, Fulvio Orsitto ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors’ previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions

    Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini

    by Virginia Agostinelli, Fabio Benincasa, Francesca D’Alessandro Behr, Daniela Bini, Millicent Marcus, Fulvio Orsitto, Flaviano Pisanelli, Francesco Rosetti, Daniela Privitera, Ilaria Lanzarini, Giulia Tellini, William Van Watson ...
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    Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations of Western Europeans and Americans to reconsider not only issues regarding the self, but also various social concerns. Pasolini’s works touched and continues to inspire students, scholars, and intellectuals alike to question the status quo. This collection of ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

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  • Madonna as Postmodern Myth

    How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream

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  • A Place for Us

    "West Side Story" and New York

    by Julia L. Foulkes ...
    The making of the classic musical: "A fascinating read focusing equally on the show and the world into which it was born."— ChoiceFrom its 1957 Broadway debut to multiple revivals, from the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone—an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York.A lifelong ... Read more

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  • Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television

    Edited by Claude Summers ...
    From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 200 entries and 200 photos that document the irrepressible impact of queer creative artists on popular culture.How did Liberace’s costumes almost kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as “the best white cheerleader in Detroit?” ... Read more

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

    by Samuele F. S. Pardini ...
    In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in ... Read more

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  • An Offer We Can't Refuse

    The Mafia in the Mind of America

    by George De Stefano ...
    A provocative and entertaining look at the mafia, the media, and the (un)making of Italian Americans.As evidenced in countless films, novels, and television portrayals, the Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. In An Offer We Can't Refuse, George De Stefano takes a close look ... Read more

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  • From Wiseguys to Wise Men

    The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities

    by Fred Gardaphe ...
    The gangster, in the hands of the Italian American artist, becomes a telling figure in the tale of American race, gender, and ethnicity - a figure that reflects the autobiography of an immigrant group just as it reflects the fantasy of a native population.From Wiseguys to Wise Men studies the figure of the gangster and explores its social function in the construction and projection of masculinity ... Read more

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  • Drawn and Dangerous

    Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s

    by Simone Castaldi ...
    Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of comics intended for adults.Blurring the lines between high art and popular consumption, artists of the ... Read more

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  • Napoli/New York/Hollywood

    Film Between Italy and the United States

    by Giuliana Muscio ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film.In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian Giuliana Muscio investigates the significant influence of Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors on Hollywood cinema. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, Muscio demonstrates how ... Read more

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