Chapter 1/Introduction Daniele Fioretti and Fulvio Orsitto
PART I -THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE :Silent Films
Chapter 2 Races to the Rescue in an Ethnic Urban Milieu: D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Italian Dramas Irene Lottini
Chapter 3The Italian (1915) and the Representation of Italian Immigrants in Silent American Cinema Bernard Kuhn Revising Gender and Ethnic Perspectives
Chapter 4: Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk's Rendition of Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete Gloria Pastorino
Chapter 5 A Sting from the Past: Femininity and Ethnic Roots in Helen De Michiel's Tarantella (1995) Daniele Fioretti
Chapter 6: The Celluloid Closet: Sex, Power, and Coming Out Repression of the Italian American Closet in Nunzio's Second Cousin (1994), Kiss Me, Guido (1997), and Mambo Italiano (2003) Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Chapter 7From True Love (1989) to Union Square (2011): Recovering the Exploded Family in Nancy Savoca's Films Gloria Pastorino
Chapter 8: A Realistic Tale of Improbable Friendship. Notes on Matthew Bonifacio's Amexicano (2007) Claudia Peralta and Fulvio Orsitto
PART II - ITALIAN AMERICANS IN OTHER MEDIA
Chapter 9: Italian American Gangsters Taking on a New Line of Work in Luc Besson's The Family (2013) Rosetta Caponetto Giuliani
Chapter 10: The Transnational Puppet: From Italy and Back Federico Pacchioni
Chapter 11: Comfortable and Uncomfortable Fictions: Italian Americans in the First Decades of Television Fulvio Orsitto
Chapter 12: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Italian Americans on Television from the 1970s to the1990s Fulvio Orsitto
Chapter 13: Italian Americans on Television in the New Millennium: From Small to Smaller Screen(s) Fulvio Orsitto
Chapter 14: The Goddess and the Huntress: Diana and DC'sHelena Bertinelli Felice Italo Beneduce
Chapter 15: CNN's Searching for Italy: Stanley Tucci as Foodways Icon Alan J. Gravano
Chapter 16: Chef/Cook, Influencer, Mixologist, Travel Host: Stanley Tucci as Everyman Alan J. Gravano
Chapter 17: An Unlimited Memeiosis of The Godfather: Diachronic and Synchronic Observations of a Pervasive and Ubiquitous Meme Anthony Dion Mitzel
PART III - INTERVIEWS
Chapter 18: Interview with Helen De Michiel Daniele Fioretti
Chapter 19: Interview with Tony Vitale Daniele Fioretti
Chapter 20: Interview with Michela Musolino Daniele Fioretti
Chapter 21: Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri Ryan Calabretta-Sajder.