Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy 'Pulls you in on page

'Pulls you in on page one and never lets go

KATE McCLYMONT

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

free to roam some of the most beautiful land in America

are more recent immigrants

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers:: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino Diplomacy 'Pulls you in on pageHollywood'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,