The Godfather and American Culture

• Author : Chris Messenger
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 25 April 2002

A comprehensive look at a classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination.

• Author : Harlan Lebo
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 25 October 2005

Provides behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the three Godfather films, detailing the financial success of the films, the cooperation of the real Mafia with the makers of the films, and portraits of the cast and crew, accompanied by more than one hundred personal photographs.

• Author : Tom Santopietro
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 31 January 2012

A brilliant examination of our forty year obsession with the classic film trilogy—and a personal reflection on what it means to be Italian-American Forty years and one billion dollars in gross box office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind this ongoing global phenomenon. Packed with behind-the-scenes anecdotes from all three Godfather films, Tom Santopietro explores the historical

• Author : Mark Winegardner
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 29 February 2012

It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael Corleone, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people - among them former mob rivals and an emissary from the Mayor of New York - wait to ask the great man for favours. Only one thing remains to be done. Traitorous former Corleone capo Nick Geraci has powerful

• Author : Rita Gigante,Natasha Stoynoff
• Publisher : Hay House, Inc
• Release : 18 September 2012

Rita Gigante grew up in a world swirling with secrets, lies, and multiple sins. Her father, notorious Mafia boss Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, was the leader of the Genovese crime clan and the head of all five New York crime families for decades. But until she was 16, she was kept in the dark about his underworld activities. She unknowingly hung out at mob headquarters and witnessed her dad’s whispered meetings around the dinner table, but only knew what she

• Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• Release : 01 July 2021

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence. In this interdisciplinary work, Raymond Angelo Belliotti presents an interpretation of The Godfather as, among other things, a commentary on the transformation of personal identity within the Sicilian and Italian immigrant experience. The book explores both the novel and the film sequence in terms of an existential conflict between two sets of values that offer competing visions of the world: on the one hand, a nineteenth-century Sicilian

• Author : Nick Browne
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 13 November 1999

The essays in this volume reexamine Coppola's The Godfather trilogy from a variety of perspectives.

• Author : Weston Underwood, England (Buckinghamshire) (Parish)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1887

• Author : Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1884

• Author : Jeremiah Curtin
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1895

• Author : Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1896

• Author : Jacob Grimm
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1869

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1889

• Author : Gary DuVal
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 29 July 2002

Provides production credits, cast list, and a plot synopsis for nearly six hundred motion pictures that feature at least one scene filmed on location in Nevada.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 February 1990