Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future

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Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillos definition of Italian-American cinema as appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

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Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future is a thoughtful collection of dense essays that offers readers a look at some of the many approaches to the increasingly visible field of Italian American studies. It is a scholarly book for an academic audience that sets out to update and, in some cases, challenge existing parameters of the field, and in this way, I fully agree with the editors in their positioning of the volume as a clear successor to works by such foundational scholars as Anthony Tamburri, Fred Gardaph, and Robert Casillo.

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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.