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Author:   Ryan Calabretta-Sajder ,  Alan J. Gravano ,  Ryan Calabretta-Sajder ,  Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.567kg
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9781793611543

ISBN 10:   1793611548
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   04 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Both building upon and moving beyond established critical paradigms, Italian Americans on Screen promotes crucial new lines of media inquiry. It legitimizes the contributions of non-Italian American filmmakers; touches upon long-ignored television programs, century-old newspapers and new media programs; and delves into recent exchanges between Italian and American media cultures. This collection is a fundamental (re)starting point for future research.--Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan

Both building upon and moving beyond established critical paradigms, Italian Americans on Screen promotes crucial new lines of media inquiry. It legitimizes the contributions of non-Italian American filmmakers; touches upon long-ignored television programs, century-old newspapers and new media programs; and delves into recent exchanges between Italian and American media cultures. This collection is a fundamental (re)starting point for future research. Departing from Robert Casillo's strict-constructionist definition of an Italian-American cinema and media studies (an Italian-American director on an Italian-American subject), Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Alan Gravano, and their many contributors have boldly expanded across ""blurred boundaries,"" generic, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and historical. Their innovative methods and wealth of fresh content will make this volume itself the marker of a new moment in Italian-American Studies. Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future is a thoughtful collection of dense essays that offers readers a look at some of the many approaches to the increasingly visible field of Italian American studies. It is a scholarly book for an academic audience that sets out to update and, in some cases, challenge existing parameters of the field, and in this way, I fully agree with the editors in their positioning of the volume as a clear successor to works by such foundational scholars as Anthony Tamburri, Fred Gardaphé, and Robert Casillo.

"Both building upon and moving beyond established critical paradigms, Italian Americans on Screen promotes crucial new lines of media inquiry. It legitimizes the contributions of non-Italian American filmmakers; touches upon long-ignored television programs, century-old newspapers and new media programs; and delves into recent exchanges between Italian and American media cultures. This collection is a fundamental (re)starting point for future research. Departing from Robert Casillo's strict-constructionist definition of an Italian-American cinema and media studies (an Italian-American director on an Italian-American subject), Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Alan Gravano, and their many contributors have boldly expanded across ""blurred boundaries,"" generic, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and historical. Their innovative methods and wealth of fresh content will make this volume itself the marker of a new moment in Italian-American Studies."

Departing from Robert Casillo's strict-constructionist definition of an Italian-American cinema and media studies (an Italian-American director on an Italian-American subject), Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Alan Gravano, and their many contributors have boldly expanded across blurred boundaries, generic, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and historical. Their innovative methods and wealth of fresh content will make this volume itself the marker of a new moment in Italian-American Studies.--John Paul Russo, University of Miami Both building upon and moving beyond established critical paradigms, Italian Americans on Screen promotes crucial new lines of media inquiry. It legitimizes the contributions of non-Italian American filmmakers; touches upon long-ignored television programs, century-old newspapers and new media programs; and delves into recent exchanges between Italian and American media cultures. This collection is a fundamental (re)starting point for future research.--Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan

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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.

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