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Italian and Irish filmmakers in America : Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorsese
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1990.
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Table of Contents:
- Irish and Italian immigrants and the movies. Framing ethnic culture ; Filming ethnicity piecemeal : D.W. Griffith's women and other precedents
- Irish and Italian immigrant streotypes in the 1920s. Irish America pays a price for success ; Immigrant Italians for Anglo-American audiences
- John Ford and the landscapes of Irish America. An Irish-American idea of film production ; Urban Irish America : ethnic dangers and virtues ; Ireland remembered : the Holy Mother, Judas, and Mary Magdalene ; Faraway places with Irish types ; The wild west : Irish identity as American history
- Frank Capra and his Italian vision of America. The Italian success ethic in Capra's films ; The early years : Irish types and WASP women ; The mature years : Italian social ethics in anglo America ; The follow-through : an all-American ethnic story
- Francis Coppola and ethnic double vision. Growing up with the success ethic ; From angry Irish son to Italian-American mother ; Facing the self-destructive successful father ; The flight from Italian/American patriachy
- Martin Scorsese in Little Italy and greater Manhattan. Boyhood in Little Italy ; The Italian-American family on set ; Doing penance in the streets ; Outside Little Italy with an Italian-American conscience.