Daniele Fioretti teaches Italian American culture and Italian cinema, language, and culture at Miami University, USA. He is the author of Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature - Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also written Carte di fabbrica: la narrativa industriale in Italia 1934-1989 (2013) as well as articles and book chapters on cinema and literature.

Fulvio Orsitto is the Director of the Georgetown University study center in Fiesole, Italy. He has published more than thirty essays and book chapters on Italian and Italian American cinema and Italian Literature. His book publications include the edited volumes The Other and the Elsewhere in Italian Culture (2011) and Cinema and Risorgimento (2012), the co-authored manual Film and Education. Capturing Bilingual Communities (2014), and seven other co-edited volumes.   

1. Chapter 1/Introduction

Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto

PART I -

ESTABLISHING ITALIAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES

2. Chapter 2

'I Don't Do Business with Dagoes': Anti-Italian Discrimination in Nicholas Meyer's Vendetta

Daniele Fioretti

3. Chapter 3

Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto

4. Chapter 4

Setting the Italian American Gangster in Stone: Little Caesar and Scarface

Philip Balma

5. Chapter 5

Nice Guys Finish Last? Delbert Mann's Marty

Gloria Pastorino

6. Chapter 6

The Italian American Prizefighter: Ethnicity in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull

Irene Lottini

7. Chapter 7

Mean Streets. A Mirror Construction of Reality

Fulvio Orsitto

PART II -

8. Chapter 8

The Funeral: Taking Aim at the Stereotype

Luca Barattoni

9. Chapter 9

Good Food is Close to God: Religious Overtones of the Culinary Arts in Big Night

Felice Beneduce

10. Chapter 10

The Eclipse of the Godfather's Garden: From the Agromafia to the Money Mafia

Elena Past

11. Chapter 11

Goodfellas. When the 'Kid from Little Italy' Meets the 'Oklahoma Kid'

Fulvio Orsitto

Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco between Classic Hollywood and the New Gangster

Sabrina Ovan

Documentary and Italian American Identity: Time and Exposure in Alfred Guzzetti's Family Films

Andy Rice