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3031472101 rar Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Griffiths Biograph Italian Dramas (1908-1913) to the present day. Building on the editors previous volume Italian Americans in Film, this collection broadens their scope to address marginalized aspects of Italian Americanness, including the work of women directors and depictions of same-sex relationships. The book consists of three parts. Part I, The Immigrant Experience, focuses on feature films and is divided into two sections: Silent Films (which analyses some of Griffiths early films and Barkers The Italian, 1915), and Revising Gender Perspectives, which includes chapters focusing on single films such as Dmytryks Christ in Concrete (1949), De Michiels Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacios Read more