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1 online resource |
Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preliminaries for a Reading""; ""Fictive Narratives""; ""Sublminal Ethnicity""; ""Black & White, Scungill' & Cannoli""; ""Music Videos""; ""Rock Videos as Social Narratives""; ""Documentaries""; ""Will Parrinello's Little Italy""; ""Ethnicity, Sexuality, Gender""; ""After-thoughts""; ""Select Bibliography"" |
Summary |
Annotation This book constitutes a first look at the little-known phenomenon of the Italian/American short film. What becomes apparent is the conspicuous interest these members of the newer generation of Italian/American filmmakers exhibit vis-a-vis their ethnicity, be such films a fiction, a documentary, or a music video. Equally significant is the lens through which they see their Italian/American heritage. While the older generations concentrated more on the by now well-known thematics of immigration and organized crime, as well as the debunking thereof, these younger artists/performers of short films have added to the general theme of heritage, at various degrees, that of race, gender, and sexuality. Anthony Julian Tamburri is a professor of Italian at Florida Atlantic University, where he is also chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics. He is the author of seven other books, including A Semiotic of Ethnicity: In (Re)cognition of the Italian/American Writer and To Hyphenate or Not to Hypenate: The Italian/American Writer: Or, An Other American? and is editor or co-editor of twelve collections, including the best-selling anthology From the Margin (1991/2000) and Screening Ethnicity (2002). He is a co-founding editor of Voices in Italian Americana: A Literary and Cultural Review |
Audience |
Trade Purdue University Press |
Subject |
Italian Americans in motion pictures.
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Italian Americans in the motion picture industry.
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Short films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Music videos -- United States -- History and criticism
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Italian Americans in motion pictures
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Italian Americans in the motion picture industry
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Music videos
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Short films
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781557532329 |
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155753232X |
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