Title The Godfather and American culture : how the Corleones became "Our Gang" / Chris Messenger.

Publication Info.	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 344 pages) : illustrations.
Series	SUNY series in Italian/American culture
	SUNY series in Italian/American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.
Contents	Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I : Popular fiction criticism and American careers -- Popular fiction : taste, sentiment, and the culture of criticism ; Mario Puzo : an American writer's career -- Part II : Reading The godfather : critical strategies and theoretical models ; Bakhtin and Puzo : authority as the family business ; The godfather and the ethnic ensemble ; Barthes and Puzo : the authority of the signifier -- Part III : Positioning The godfather in American narrative study -- The godfather and melodrama : authorizing the Corleones as American heroes ; Corleones as Our gang : The godfather interrogated by Doctorow's Ragtime ; American inadvertent epic : The godfather copied ; The godfather sung by The Sopranos.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999. Godfather.
	Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999.
	Godfather (Puzo, Mario) (OCoLC)fst01365192
	Corleone family (Fictitious characters)
	Italian Americans in literature.
	Criminals in literature.
	Families in literature.
	Mafia in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	Corleone family (Fictitious characters) (OCoLC)fst00878985
	Criminals in literature. (OCoLC)fst00883558
	Families in literature. (OCoLC)fst00920365
	Italian Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00980448
	Mafia in literature. (OCoLC)fst01005398
Other Form:	Print version: Messenger, Christian K., 1943- Godfather and American culture. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 079145357X 0791453588 (DLC) 2001049424 (OCoLC)47785670
ISBN	0585471029 (electronic bk.)
	9780585471020 (electronic bk.)

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