Nick Browne (ed.)

Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather Trilogy

Herausgeber: Browne, Nick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Among the most elaborate examples of crime film, the films in The Godfather trilogy provide a complex look at a whole segment of American life and culture spanning almost the whole century. In six essays, written especially for this volume, The Godfather trilogy is reexamined from a variety of perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Film Handbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780521559508
• ISBN-10: 0521559502
• Artikelnr.: 21098010

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Fearful a-symmetries: violence as history in the Godfather films Nick Browne
1. If history has taught us anything ... Francis Coppola, Paramount Studios, and The Godfather Parts I, II and III Jon Lewis
2. The Godfather and the mythology of Mafia Alessandro Camon
3. The representation of ethnicity in The Godfather Vera Dika
4. Ideology and genre in the Godfather films Glenn Man
5. Family ceremonies: or, opera in The Godfather trilogy Naomi Greene
Filmography
Reviews of the 'Godgather' trilogy
Select bibliography
Index.