Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Italian Studies Program at Fairfield University.

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Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

II. Screen Idols and Female Admirers in The White Sheik (Fellini, 1952), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985), and Nurse Betty (LaBute, 2000)

III. The Art of Film Reconsidered: Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966) and Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)

IV. The Evolving Western: From America to Italy and Back in Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) and Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2 (Tarantino, 2003 and 2004)

V. Neorealism Revisited by African American Directors in the New Millennium: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Daniels, 2009) and Miracle at St. Anna (Lee, 2008)

VI. Whither the Remake?

VII. Conclusion

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