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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Christina Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became ‘‘Our Gang By Chris Messenger. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $75.50; paper...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2003
... to 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...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 460–462.
Published: 01 June 2003
... 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...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 667–674.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 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 this comparative reading offers a “hybrid, transnational model...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 621–636.
Published: 01 September 2005
... the American Renaissance—Emerson, Haw- thorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Poe, and Melville (so much good Mel- ville at AL).AndIdidsoatthesametimeIwasdesigningamultimedia course on Pietro di Donato, Frank Sinatra, The Godfather, Moonstruck, and Madonna—which constituted the first soundings for a new book...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Keepers (1984). Still, Wilson alerts us to an important...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Keepers (1984). Still, Wilson alerts us to an important...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 670–673.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 675–678.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Keepers (1984). Still, Wilson alerts us to an important...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 678–680.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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 Sopranos. And Chapter 5, focusing on the prison exposé, reads more like a paired book...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., having a substantial audience was important to Harland, who consid- 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 125 of 252 ered the value of a literary work measurable partly by its appeal to a variety of readers. In a letter to his godfather, Edmund Clarence Sted...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 661–663.
Published: 01 September 2011
... 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...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2007
...]laying fairy godfather to beautiful but penniless girls, bringing them out in society, introducing their golden princes to them. . . . His unfailing knowledge of psychology stood him in good stead; he would say exactly the right thing to both of them. And on the tri- umphant day when he...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
Published: 01 December 2021
... – 71 . Roche John F. 1995 . “ Whitman vs. Morris in Chicago: Oppositional Poetic Godfathers of the American Arts and Crafts Movement .” Atq 9 , no. 2 : 103 – 18 . Rotman Deborah L. 2006 . “ Separate Spheres?: Beyond the Dichotomies of Domesticity .” Current Anthropology...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 37–64.
Published: 01 March 2025
... name being changed from Mohammed-Ali-Ben-Said to Nicholas Said. Prince Nicholas was my godfather. I shall always feel grateful, so long as I live, for Prince Nicholas’s kindness to me; but I cannot help thinking that the way I was baptized was not right, for I think that I ought to have known perfectly...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... (1967) and Easy Rider (1969), which became icons of 1960s counterculture. 9 But films like The Godfather (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975), and Star Wars (1977) showed the studios that their most profitable strategy was not to invest in creative experiments but to produce...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 831–857.
Published: 01 December 2011
... reads as a meeting between adults: all three figures are now more concerned with parenting than with polic- ing the world or keeping it safe. Superman and Wonder Woman have conceived a child, and they ask Batman to be the child’s godfather; Batman is meanwhile occupied with nursing his own...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2007
... attend more closely to neglected authors such as Pascal D’Angelo and Garibaldi La Polla, who help address a comprehensive set of paradoxes and difficulties and thus describe Italian America outside the mob stereotype. This approach remedies the danger of exposure to The Godfather...