This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing new intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, contributors establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen.

Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano - Contributions by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder; Mary Ann McDonald Carolan; Jonathan J. Cavallero; Francesco Chianese; Alan J. Gravano; Paul S. Moore; Colleen M. Ryan; Sarah H. Salter; Giuseppe Sorrentino; Gi

Introduction
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder & Alan Gravano
Part I: What is Italian-American Cinema?

What is Italian about Sofia Coppola? Tracing Ethnicity in Third-Generation Feminist Cinema

Colleen Ryan

Edible Ethnicity: Italian-American Representations, Cinematic Style, and Ethnic Commodification in Stanley Tucci's and Campbell Scott's Big Night

Jonathan Cavallero

Questioning the Italian-American Palooka: From Definition of Race to Disabilities in Avildsen's Rocky, Coogler's Creed, and Caple Jr's Creed II

Alan Gravano
Part II: Blurring the Lines between Italian and American on Screen

The Italian Pursuit of Hollywood

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

Comedies of Identity: Italian Cinema and Television Narrating Italian Americans

Giuseppe Sorrentino
Part III: Re-Viewing Italian Americana on Screen: Reception and Reflections

Who's Laughing at Whom? Masculinity, Humor, and Italian American Lives on Mainstream Television: Friends

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder

Tony Soprano Meets Furio Giunta: Italian Americans and the 'Real' Italians in The Sopranos

Francesco Chianese
Part IV: Italian Newspapers, Italian Cinema, and 2.0 Media

Serializing Italian American Futurities

Sarah Salter

Cinema Paradiso: Toronto's Italian Language Cinemas and Distribution Networks

Jessica Leonora Whitehead and Paul S. Moore

Conversing about National Attributes Online: The Case of Italy and the U.S.

Giacomo Sproccati
Index
About the Contributors