| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The Godfather and American culture/ Chris Messenger. |
| Reminder of title: |
how the Corleones became "Our Gang" / |
| Author: |
Messenger, Christian K., |
| Published: |
Albany :State University of New York Press, : c2002., |
| Description: |
vii, 344 p. :ill. |
| Series: |
SUNY series in Italian/American culture |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I : Popular fiction criticism and American careers -- Popular fiction : taste, sentiment, and the culture of criticism ; Mario Puzo : an American writer's career -- Part II : Reading The godfather : critical strategies and theoretical models ; Bakhtin and Puzo : authority as the family business ; The godfather and the ethnic ensemble ; Barthes and Puzo : the authority of the signifier -- Part III : Positioning The godfather in American narrative study -- The godfather and melodrama : authorizing the Corleones as American heroes ; Corleones as Our gang : The godfather interrogated by Doctorow's Ragtime ; American inadvertent epic : The godfather copied ; The godfather sung by The Sopranos. |
| Subject: |
Corleone family (Fictitious characters) - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=98713An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585471029 (electronic bk.) |