This volume examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from its origin to the present day. Divided into three section, the first one, “The Immigrant Experience”, focuses on feature films and is subdivided into two parts: “Silent Films” (with essays analyzing Griffith’s Biograph Italian Dramas, and Barker’s The Italian, 1915), and “Revising Gender Perspectives” (with chapters focusing on a single movie – like Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete, 1949, De Michiel’s Tarantella (1995), and Bonifacio’s Amexicano, 2007 – and others providing a larger discourse on the Italian American Closet and on some of Savoca’s films). The second section, “Italian Americans in Other Media”, offers a wide range of essays informed by different approaches that investigate the immigrant experience in terms of transmediality and transnationality, and range from television to graphic novels, from classic puppetry to tools belonging to the Internet age, such as Instagram and memes. The third and final section contains interviews with prominent Italian Americans. weiterlesen