Francis Ford Coppola's the Godfather Trilogy

Name: Francis Ford Coppola's the Godfather Trilogy
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ISBN: 9780521559508

ISBN-10: 0521559502

ISBN-13: 9780521559508

Edition: 2000

Authors: Nick Browne, Horton Andrew

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The Godfather trilogy is among the most significant works of Hollywood cinema of the last quarter century. They provide a richly 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 re-examined from a variety of perspectives. Providing analyses on the form and significance of Coppolas achievement, they demonstrate how the filmmaker revised the conventions of the American crime film in the Viet Nam era, his treatment of the capitalism of the criminal underworld and its inherent violence, the power struggles within Hollywood over the film, and the contribution of opera to the…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Nick Browne is Professor of Film at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of "New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics" (1994).



Acknowledgements


List of contributors


Fearful a-symmetries: violence as history in the Godfather films




If history has taught us anything &hellips;




The Godfather and the mythology of




The representation of ethnicity in The Godfather




Ideology and genre in the Godfather films




Family ceremonies: or, opera in The Godfather trilogy



Filmography


Reviews of the 'Godgather' trilogy


Select bibliography


Index