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Author:   Daniele Fioretti ,  Fulvio Orsitto
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.534kg
ISBN:  

9783031064647

ISBN 10:   303106464
Pages:   283
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1.     Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto PART I - ESTABLISHING ITALIAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES 2.     Chapter 2 ‘I Don’t Do Business with Dagoes’: Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer’s Vendetta Daniele Fioretti  3.     Chapter 3 Ask the ‘Dust Jacket’. Robert Towne’s Film Adaptation of John Fante’s Ask the Dust Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto 4.     Chapter 4 Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface  Philip Balma 5.     Chapter 5 Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann’s Marty  Gloria Pastorino 6.     Chapter 6 The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull Irene Lottini 7.     Chapter 7 Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality Fulvio Orsitto PART II - CHALLENGING ITALIAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES (and Their Representations)8.     Chapter 8 The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype Luca Barattoni 9.     Chapter 9 Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night Felice Beneduce 10.  Chapter 10 The Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia Elena Past 11.  Chapter 11 Goodfellas. When the ‘Kid from Little Italy’ Meets the ‘Oklahoma Kid’ Fulvio Orsitto 12.  Chapter 12 Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster Sabrina Ovan 13.  Chapter 13 Documentary and Italian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti’s Family Films Andy Rice

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Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature – Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature. Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.   

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