Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature – Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature.Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.

“Indeed, Italian American cinema has in many ways held an outsized space in academic studies of Italian American cultural production. … The student of Italian American cinema will also find helpful the extensive bibliography that concludes each essay, as well as the additional section of films cited, which can help the reader move beyond the works that are the focus of the chapters and widen their familiarity with cinematic texts that have yet to become part of the canon.” (Rebecca Bauman, Italian American Review, Vol. 14 (2), 2024)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ‘I Don’t Do Business with Dagoes’: Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer’s Vendetta.- 3. Ask the ‘Dust Jacket’. Robert Towne’s Film Adaptation of John Fante’s Ask the Dust.- 4. Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface.- 5. Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann’s Marty.- 6. The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull.- 7. Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality.- 8. The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype.- 9. Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night.- 10. The Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia.- 11. Goodfellas. When the ‘Kid from Little Italy’ Meets the ‘Oklahoma Kid’.- 12. Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster.- 13. Documentary andItalian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti’s Family Films.

Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature – Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature.Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.

“Indeed, Italian American cinema has in many ways held an outsized space in academic studies of Italian American cultural production. … The student of Italian American cinema will also find helpful the extensive bibliography that concludes each essay, as well as the additional section of films cited, which can help the reader move beyond the works that are the focus of the chapters and widen their familiarity with cinematic texts that have yet to become part of the canon.” (Rebecca Bauman, Italian American Review, Vol. 14 (2), 2024)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ‘I Don’t Do Business with Dagoes’: Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer’s Vendetta.- 3. Ask the ‘Dust Jacket’. Robert Towne’s Film Adaptation of John Fante’s Ask the Dust.- 4. Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface.- 5. Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann’s Marty.- 6. The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull.- 7. Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality.- 8. The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype.- 9. Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night.- 10. The Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia.- 11. Goodfellas. When the ‘Kid from Little Italy’ Meets the ‘Oklahoma Kid’.- 12. Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster.- 13. Documentary andItalian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti’s Family Films.

Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature – Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature.Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.

“Indeed, Italian American cinema has in many ways held an outsized space in academic studies of Italian American cultural production. … The student of Italian American cinema will also find helpful the extensive bibliography that concludes each essay, as well as the additional section of films cited, which can help the reader move beyond the works that are the focus of the chapters and widen their familiarity with cinematic texts that have yet to become part of the canon.” (Rebecca Bauman, Italian American Review, Vol. 14 (2), 2024)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. ‘I Don’t Do Business with Dagoes’: Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer’s Vendetta.- 3. Ask the ‘Dust Jacket’. Robert Towne’s Film Adaptation of John Fante’s Ask the Dust.- 4. Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface.- 5. Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann’s Marty.- 6. The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull.- 7. Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality.- 8. The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype.- 9. Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night.- 10. The Eclipse of the Godfather’s Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia.- 11. Goodfellas. When the ‘Kid from Little Italy’ Meets the ‘Oklahoma Kid’.- 12. Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster.- 13. Documentary andItalian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti’s Family Films.