Spectacles of themselves : essays in Italian American popular culture and literature / George Guida

Author:: Guida, George, 1967-
Published:: New York : Bordighera Press, [date of publication not identified][2015]
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Physical Description:: xiv, 185 pages ; 23 cm.

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Saggistica ; 16

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Las Vegas Jubilee: Louis Prima's 1950s Stage Act as Multicultural Pageant -- Prospero's Mooks: The Meaning of Martin Scorsese's Italian American Dialect -- "Cunnilingus and Psychotherapy Brought Us to This": Mafia Comedy as Italian American Cultural Expression -- Two Mafia Cinemas: A Review Essay -- A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Ziti Down Your Pants: Tony and Tina's Wedding and Italian American Stage Comedy -- Mario Soldati's Italian Americans -- Novel Paesans: The Reconstruction of Italian American Male Identity in Anthony Valerio's Conversation with Johnny and Robert Viscusi's Astoria -- Anthony Valerio: The Metaphysics of Frank Sinatra -- Anthony Valerio's Anita Garibaldi, A Biography -- Anthony Valerio's The Little Sailor. Quintessence of an Oeuvre -- Only the Zen Know Brooklyn: Diane di Prima's Parent/Poet Wisdom -- Ink in the Streets: Dana Gioia, the Four Types, and Italian American Poetry -- Maria Terrone's Eye to Eye -- Maria Terrone's American Gothic, Take 2 -- Tullio Pironti's Books and Rough Business -- Michael LaSorsa Steffen's Heart Murmur and Marcus Rome's And This is What Happens Next -- Fred Misurella's Lies to Live By: Stories -- John Paul Russo's The Future Without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society -- Anthony Giardina's Recent History: A Novel -- Dennis Barone's Echoes and Separate Objects -- Mary Bucci Bush's Drowning.

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ISBN:

1599540908
9781599540900

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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