Italian Americans on Screen

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder is assistant professor of Italian at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.Alan J. Gravano is assistant professor and writing center director at Rocky Mountain University.

• IntroductionRyan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan GravanoPart I: What is Italian-American Cinema?1.What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist CinemaColleen Ryan2.Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci’s and Campbell Scott’s Big NightJonathan Cavallero3.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 GravanoPart II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen4.The Italian Pursuit of HollywoodMary Ann McDonald Carolan5.Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian AmericansGiuseppe SorrentinoPart III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections6.Who’s Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends Ryan Calabretta-Sajder7.Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Ital

Both building upon and moving beyond established critical paradigms, Italian Americans on Screen promotes crucial new lines of media inquiry. It legitimizes the contributions of non-Italian American filmmakers; touches upon long-ignored television programs, century-old newspapers and new media programs; and delves into recent exchanges between Italian and American media cultures. This collection is a fundamental (re)starting point for future research.