The Godfather Seen Through The Lens of Elite Criticism (and Vice Versa)Jp

By Glenn Solvang, 7 November, 2017
Author
Joseph Urgo
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
URL
The Godfather Seen Through The Lens of Elite Criticism (and Vice Versa)
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
Corleones
stowe
uncle tom's cabin
puzo
the godfather
popular culture
Francis Ford Coppola
the sopranos
italian-american
Richard Slotkin
cultural
america
American culture
American studies
kant
Bakhtin
Boelhower
fiction
film
doctorow
rag
Abstract (in English)

Chris Messenger achieves a rare convergence of elite and popular cultural criticism by doing for The Godfather (and its spinoffs) what previous critics have done for Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Critical Writing referenced
The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang"