Hollywood's Italian American filmmakers : Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino /
Cavallero, Jonathan J.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.
Introduction -- Frank Capra : ethnic denial and its impossibility -- Martin Scorsese : confined and defined by ethnicity -- Nancy Savoca : ethnicity, class, and gender -- Francis Ford Coppola : ethnic nostalgia in The godfather trilogy -- Quentin Tarantino : ethnicity and the postmodern -- Conclusion : ancestral legacies and history's lessons.
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
Ethnicity in motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors
Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.