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The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang.”; Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
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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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Global Hollywood; The Language of New Media
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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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Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
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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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Brief Mention
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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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Roundtable: American Literature at Seventy-five
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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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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
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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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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture
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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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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville
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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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Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
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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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The Prison and the American Imagination
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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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Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn
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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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A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction
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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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Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer
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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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Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America
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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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Little Brothers of the Rich: Queer Families in the Gilded Age
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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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Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle
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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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The Black Atlantic Monthly : Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship
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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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The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s
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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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On the Literary Use of Superheroes; or, Batman and Superman Fistfight in Heaven
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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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Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America; The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America
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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...
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