Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the
Future reconsiders Robert Casillo's definition of Italian-American
cinema as "appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat
Italian-American subjects" to expand this classification. Contributors
situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and
intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class,
gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to
theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in
television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian
Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural
studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.