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{en} Lee Lourdeaux. Italian and Irish filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola, and Scorsese. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990.

Contents

"Irish and Italian immigrants and the movies. Framing ethnic culture ; Filming ethnicity piecemeal : D.W. Griffith's women and other precedents -- Irish and Italian immigrant streotypes in the 1920s. Irish America pays a price for success ; Immigrant Italians for Anglo-American audiences -- John Ford and the landscapes of Irish America. An Irish-American idea of film production ; Urban Irish America : ethnic dangers and virtues ; Ireland remembered : the Holy Mother, Judas, and Mary Magdalene ; Faraway places with Irish types ; The wild west : Irish identity as American history -- Frank Capra and his Italian vision of America. The Italian success ethic in Capra's films ; The early years : Irish types and WASP women ; The mature years : Italian social ethics in anglo America ; The follow-through : an all-American ethnic story -- Francis Coppola and ethnic double vision. Growing up with the success ethic ; From angry Irish son to Italian-American mother ; Facing the self-destructive successful father ; The flight from Italian/American patriachy -- Martin Scorsese in Little Italy and greater Manhattan. Boyhood in Little Italy ; The Italian-American family on set ; Doing penance in the streets ; Outside Little Italy with an Italian-American conscience."--Jacket.