Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy they took very different paths

they took very different paths – leaving them with a challenging long-distance friendship

The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war

free to roam some of the most beautiful land in America

KATE McCLYMONT

'Pulls you in on page one and never lets go

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy they took very different pathsHollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American ''imagined community,'' others have ignored or even denied their background. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films of Frank Capra, Martin Scorsese, Nancy Savoca, Francis Ford Coppola,