ENGLISH

Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos

By Peter Bondanella

Book information

Publisher
The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc
Year
2006
ISBN
9781501340369, 9780826417572
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
43 MB (45467905 bytes)
Pages
\346
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 00:51:27

Description

From the silent era and The Black Hand (1906) to The Sopranos, Hollywood has had a love-hate affair with Italian Americans. This book is a celebration of nearly one hundred years of images of Italians in American motion pictures. It covers all the stars as well as directors: Danny Aiello, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Brian De Palma, Leonardo Di Caprio, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Dean Martin, Vincente Minnelli, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese, Frank Sinatra, Marisa Tomei, John Travolta, Rudolph Valentino, and scores of others. Dozens of films are discussed, including, very often, their literary and European-cinematic roots. Hollywood Italians is capped by a definitive examination of Coppola’s Godfather films as well as the international-television phenomenon The Sopranos.

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