Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Design of the Book
CHAPTER 1: Irish and Italian Immigrants and the Movies
Framing Ethnic Culture
Filming Ethnicity Piecemeal: D. W. Griffith's Women and Other Precedents
CHAPTER 2: Irish and Italian Immigrant Stereotypes in the 1920s
Irish America Pays a Price for Success
Immigrant Italians for Anglo-American Audiences
CHAPTER 3: John Ford and the Landscapes of Irish America
An Irish-American Idea of Film Production
Urban Irish America: Ethnic Dangers and Virtues
Ireland Remembered: The Holy Mother, Judas, and Mary Magdalene
Faraway Places with Irish Types
The Wild West: Irish Identity as American History
CHAPTER 4: Frank Capra and His Italian Vision of America
The Italian Success Ethic in Capra's Films
The Early Years: Irish Types and WASP Woman
The Mature Years: Italian Social Ethics in Anglo America
The Follow-Through: An All-American Ethnic Story
CHAPTER 5: Francis Coppola and Ethnic Double Vision
Growing up with the Success Ethic
From Angry Irish Son to Italian-American Mother
Facing the Self-Destructive Successful Father
The Flight from Italian/American Patriarchy
CHAPTER 6: Martin Scorsese in Little Italy and Greater Manhattan
Boyhood in Little Italy
The Italian-American Family on Set
Doing Penance in the Streets
Outside Little Italy with an Italian-American Conscience
List of Films
Selected Bibliography
Index