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- Book Title
- Feeling Italian
- Publication Name
- Feeling Italian : the Art of Ethnicity in America
- Title
- Feeling Italian
- Subtitle
- The Art of Ethnicity in America
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0814727476
- EAN
- 9780814727478
- ISBN
- 9780814727478
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Arts & Photography
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 01/05/2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Series
- Nation of Nations Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Contending that the media has become the primary vehicle of Italian sensibilities, this book explores a series of books, movies, paintings, and records in ten dramatic vignettes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814727476
ISBN-13
9780814727478
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44164020
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Feeling Italian : the Art of Ethnicity in America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Nation of Nations Ser.
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
18
Lc Classification Number
E184.I8f29 2005
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Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US., This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos;they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls & feeling Italian. Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense., " Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at what's Italian about the US." - American Book Review ,, "Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public." - Multicultural Review, "Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public."-- Multicultural Review "Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US."-- Choice " Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at what's Italian about the US."-- American Book Review "This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos--they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls 'feeling Italian.' Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense."--Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt "Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect."--Jay Parini, author of Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America "The lesson that each of us must choose of the narratives carefully: You can let the Olive Garden sum you up; or you can, like Ferraro, remind yourself that it'sj ust another version of mass-culture reductivism and stereotyping. Being Italian (or Polish or Jewish or African American), Ferraro reminds us, is not about the all-you-can eat breadsticks."-- Duke Magazine, Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at whats Italian about the US., "This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos—they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls 'feeling Italian.' Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense." - Carlo Rotella, author ofGood With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, " Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at what's Italian about the US." - American Book Review, "Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found inThe Sopranostelevision series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US." -Choice, "A passionate attack on pervasive American cultural assumptions of natural inequality. The book provides a fine history of antiblack discrimination and of the racist and nativist bases of the developers of standardized intelligence tests." - Choice, "Feeling Italianis a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at what's Italian about the US." - American Book Review, "Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect." - Jay Parini, author of Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America, Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect., "Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect." - Jay Parini, author ofPassage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America, "This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos-;they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls 'feeling Italian.' Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense." -Carlo Rotella,author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, "A painstakingly researched, scientific, psychological, sociocultural, and constitutional history of race. The Smart Culture is one of our generation's most powerful indictments of insidious racism and meritocracies." - Law and Politics Book Review, "Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public." -Multicultural Review, "This inspired, sophisticated, provoking book should command the attention of anybody interested in American Italianness in particular or the cultural consequences of ethnicity in general. Joseph Stella and Frank Sinatra, Maria Barbella and Giancarlo Esposito, Madonna and the good people who brought you the Corleones and Sopranos;they and others appear here, often seen in startlingly fresh ways, as creators and exemplars of the aesthetic Tom Ferraro calls 'feeling Italian.' Wise, funny, contagiously enthusiastic, Ferraro takes us far beyond the narrow pieties of the identity police or anti-defamation types as he traces the development of a widely accessible American cultural style that still bears the marks of distinctively Italian ways of making do and making sense." - Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, "Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public." - Multicultural Review ,, "Robert Hayman writes passionately and sensitively about our attitudes toward intelligence and how those attitudes shape the conditions of social equality in this country. . . . Intelligence is one area where Americans have remained relatively complacent about outmoded stereotypes and caste-like social structures. With this book, perhaps they will be no longer." - J. M. Balkin, Lafayette S. Foster Professor, Yale Law School, "Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US." - Choice ,, "Ferraro traces the 'evolution and persistence' of an identifiable Italian American identity, from the time of widespread Italian immigration in the late 1800s through popular mediated portrayals of Italian Americans such as those found in The Sopranos television series. The book is an important contribution not only to Italian American studies, but to the understanding of ethnicity in the 21st-century US." - Choice, Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may give hope to people of other ethnicities who presently suffer from isolation and alienation on the part of the general American public., Feeling Italian is a smart book, one that makes the reader think beyond the usual ways of looking at what's Italian about the US., "Original and deeply right. There is no other book that digs so deeply into the matter at hand, and does so with such eloquence and ferocity of intellect." -Jay Parini,author of Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Feeling Italian 1. Honor: Friday Bloody Friday 2. City: New York Delirious 3. Job: Close to the Flesh and Smell and Joy of Them 4. Mother: The Madonnas of Tenth Avenue 5. Song: A Punch in Everyman's Kisser 6. Crime: La Cosa Nostra Americana 7. Romance: Only a Paper Moon? 8. Diva: Our Lady the Dominatrix of Pop 9. Skin: Giancarlo and the Border Patrol 10. Table: Cine Cucina Conclusion: The Art of Ethnicity in AmericaNotes Narrative Bibliography IndexAbout the Author
Copyright Date
2005
Topic
Emigration & Immigration, American / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General
Lccn
2004-026813
Dewey Decimal
305.85/1073
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
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