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" Italian and Irish filmmakers in America : "
Lee Lourdeaux
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BL
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638835
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Main Entry
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Lourdeaux, Lee
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Title & Author
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Italian and Irish filmmakers in America : : Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorsese /\ Lee Lourdeaux
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Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, 1990
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xi, 288 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0877226970
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: 9780877226970
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: 1566390877
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: 9781566390873
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Filmography: pages 267-271
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index
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Contents
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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
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Ford, John,1894-1973
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Capra, Frank,1897-1991
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Coppola, Francis Ford,1939-
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Scorsese, Martin
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Catholics in motion pictures
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Italian Americans in motion pictures
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Irish Americans in motion pictures
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Ethnicity-- United States
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Motion picture producers and directors-- United States, Biography
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Dewey Classification
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791.43/65222
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LC Classification
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PN1995.9.C35L68 1990
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