TY  - BOOK
AU  - Casillo,Robert
AU  - Russo,John Paul
TI  - The Italian in Modernity
T2  - Toronto Italian Studies
SN  - 9781442641501
AV  - DG441 .C38 2011eb
U1  - 945 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Italian Americans in motion pictures
KW  - Italian Americans
KW  - Italians
KW  - National characteristics, Italian
KW  - DISCOUNT-B
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Italy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Stendhal and Italy --; 2. The Unbroken Charm: New Englanders in Italy --; 3. Isle of the Dead --; 4. From Italophilia to Italophobia: Italian Americans in the Gilded Age --; 5. Puccini’s American Theme --; 6. ‘To Die Is Not Enough!’: Hemingway and D’Annunzio --; 7. The Hidden Godfather: Plenitude and Absence in Coppola’s Trilogy --; 8. The Representation of Italian Americans in American Cinema: From the Silent Film to The Godfather --; Notes --; Index Across; restricted access
N2  - Italy has been imagined and re-imagined by Western civilization from the latter part of the Renaissance to the present day. The Italian in Modernity provides a comprehensive overview of this conceptualization, in a volume that promises to become the leading introduction to current research in the field.In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies. Covering topics that include travel writing, gender, modernization and Italian decline, national character and stereotypes, immigration, and film, Casillo and Russo discuss writers and artists as diverse as Stendhal, Stäel, Burckhardt, Puccini, D'Annunzio, Santayana, Hemingway, and Coppola. Masterfully linking multidisciplinary sources along a broad historical continuum, The Italian in Modernity is essential to anyone interested in Italian culture and the links between Italy and the United States
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687073
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442687073
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442687073/original
ER  -