HOLLYWOOD'S ITALIAN AMERICAN FILMMAKERS

This book explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethn icity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American imagined community, others h ave ignored or even denied their background. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola, and Quentin Tarantino with a focus on what the films reveal about each director's view on Italian American id entities...[Read more]