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050 4 |a PS3566.U9  |b G63 2002eb 
100 1 |a Messenger, Christian K.,  |d 1943- 
245 1 4 |a The Godfather and American culture :  |b how the Corleones became "Our Gang" /  |c Chris Messenger. 
260 |a Albany :  |b State University of New York Press,  |c ©2002. 
300 |a 1 online resource (vii, 344 pages) :  |b illustrations. 
490 1 |a SUNY series in Italian/American culture 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I : Popular fiction criticism and American careers -- Popular fiction : taste, sentiment, and the culture of criticism ; Mario Puzo : an American writer's career -- Part II : Reading The godfather : critical strategies and theoretical models ; Bakhtin and Puzo : authority as the family business ; The godfather and the ethnic ensemble ; Barthes and Puzo : the authority of the signifier -- Part III : Positioning The godfather in American narrative study -- The godfather and melodrama : authorizing the Corleones as American heroes ; Corleones as Our gang : The godfather interrogated by Doctorow's Ragtime ; American inadvertent epic : The godfather copied ; The godfather sung by The Sopranos. 
600 1 0 |a Puzo, Mario,  |d 1920-1999. 
600 1 4 |a Puzo, Mario,  |d 1920- 
650 0 |a Corleone family (Fictitious characters) 
650 0 |a Italian Americans in literature. 
650 0 |a Criminals in literature. 
650 0 |a Families in literature. 
650 0 |a Mafia in literature. 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x American  |x General. 
650 7 |a Corleone family (Fictitious characters) 
650 7 |a Criminals in literature. 
650 7 |a Families in literature. 
650 7 |a Italian Americans in literature. 
856 4 0 |a Mafia in literature.  |u http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=98713 
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