Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy KATE McCLYMONT

KATE McCLYMONT

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are more recent immigrants

Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman team up in this singular celebration of a beautiful

'Pulls you in on page one and never lets go

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy KATE McCLYMONTHollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American ''imagined community,'' others have ignored or even denied their background. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola,