Italian Americans on Screen

This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing new intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, contributors establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen.

Introduction
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan Gravano

Part I: What is Italian-American Cinema?
1.What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist Cinema
Colleen Ryan
2.Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci's and Campbell Scott's Big Night
Jonathan Cavallero
3.Questioning the Italian-American Palooka: From Definition of Race to Disabilities in Avildsen's Rocky, Coogler's Creed, and Caple Jr's Creed II
Alan Gravano

Part II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen
4.The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
5.Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans
Giuseppe Sorrentino

Part III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections
6.Who's Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
7.Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Ital