Italian Americans in Film and Other Media: The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age
Daniele Fioretti, "Italian Americans in Film and Other Media: The Immigrant Experience from Silent Films to the Internet Age "
English | ISBN: 3031472101 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 605 KB + 5 MB
English | ISBN: 3031472101 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 605 KB + 5 MB
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 same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: “Silent Films” (which analyses some of Griffith’s early films and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives”, which includes chapters focusing on single films – such as Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s
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