The Godfather and American culture : how the Corleones became "Our Gang" /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2002.
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| Series: | SUNY series in Italian/American culture
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=98713 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.