| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-418) and index. |
| Contents |
Italians to Italian Americans : escaping the "southern problem" -- The Mafia : Mediterranean menace, American myth -- A genre is born : the appeal of pure power -- Don Corleone was my grandfather -- From mean streets to suburban meadow : The Sopranos rewrites the genre -- Act like a man : sex and gender in the Mafia myth -- Moulanyans, Medigahns, and wonder bread wops : race and racism on-screen and off -- Cultural holocaust or national myth? : the politics of antidefamation. |
| Subject |
Mafia -- United States.
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Italian Americans -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
0571211577 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780571211579 |
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