Mediated Ethnicity

Download or read book Mediated Ethnicity written by Giuliana Muscio and published by John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College C. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a fresh re-reading and re-imagining of Italian Americans in film, from actors to directors, from subject to agency. The trans-Atlantic discourse that emerges from these keenly insightful essays offers a guidepost for future analyses. As we come to understand the evolving paradigm of Italian Americans, whose cinematic representation has long been object of discussion and debate, Mediated Ethnicity constitutes a prismatic lens through which the contemporary viewer/reader may re-discover the cultural positioning of Italians in America. - John Tintori Associate Arts Professor and Chair, Graduate Film Program New York University Tisch School of the Arts