... postindustrial society and from modernity to postmodernity. Christina Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became ‘‘Our Gang By Chris Messenger...

... other forms of culture that express the shift from an industrial to a postindustrial society and from modernity to postmodernity. Christina Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Godfather and...

... of crosscutting in the wedding and baptism sequences of Godfather I.And Beach’s argument about the increasingly indirect representation of class in film comedies might have been strengthened by, for instance, examination of...

... and artists, emphasizing this relationship’s relevance to American blackness. Pardini turns his critical attention to works ranging from Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (1969) to James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). Tracing the transnational arc of the twentieth-century United States, he argues that...

...).AndIdidsoatthesametimeIwasdesigningamultimedia course on Pietro di Donato, Frank Sinatra, The Godfather, Moonstruck, and Madonna—which constituted the first soundings for a new book. Today’s the day I fess up. I’m an incurable Romantic—the kind with the capital R. The book I’ve written, Feeling Italian—described in the publisher’s...

... beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book review of undercover journalist Ted Conover’s Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000) and John Edgar Wideman’s Brothers and...

... with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book review of undercover journalist Ted Conover’s Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000) and John Edgar...

..., the readings fail to illustrate this compelling prem- ise. Chapter 2’s study of informant narratives, for example, remains cryptically allusive, presuming a readerly familiarity with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The...

..., the readings fail to illustrate this compelling prem- ise. Chapter 2’s study of informant narratives, for example, remains cryptically allusive, presuming a readerly familiarity with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The...

... with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book review of undercover journalist Ted Conover’s Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (2000) and John Edgar...

..., the readings fail to illustrate this compelling prem- ise. Chapter 2’s study of informant narratives, for example, remains cryptically allusive, presuming a readerly familiarity with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The...

..., the readings fail to illustrate this compelling prem- ise. Chapter 2’s study of informant narratives, for example, remains cryptically allusive, presuming a readerly familiarity with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The...

..., the readings fail to illustrate this compelling prem- ise. Chapter 2’s study of informant narratives, for example, remains cryptically allusive, presuming a readerly familiarity with Mafia stories beyond cultural touchstones like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and David Chase’s The...

... his godfather, Edmund Clarence Sted- man, he offered the reasons for his use of a Jewish pseudonym: [W]ith a Jewish name on the title page, the sale of the book would be vastly increased. I believe lots of Jews would...

... misunderstood that the proper functioning of heteronormative families is precisely what lets Harry’s sexuality express itself rather publicly. Lehr writes that Harry liked [p]laying fairy godfather to beautiful but penniless girls, bringing them out in society, introducing their golden princes to...