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Italian Americans on Screen

Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future
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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.
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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