Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America

Index

index 249 Abruzzi, Italy (ancestral region of Pietro di Donato), 54 Adamowski, T. H., 219n.7 Adams, Henry, 212n.7 “aesthetically correct ethnicity,” 194–95 (definition) Aiello, Danny, 130, 131, 165 “American Skin (41 Shots)” (song), 180 Anthony, Marc, 196 Anthony, Susan B., 18 Armstrong, Louis, 176, 198 Auster, Paul, 172 Baltimore, Maryland (interracial site of Homicide television series), 173–75 Banfield, Edward, 217n.5, 221n.2 Barbella, Maria, 5, 11–27, 30, 202 Barberi, Maria (media corruption of “Maria Barbella”), 16 Barolini, Helen, 74 Basilicata (Lucania), Italy, 28; and Lucia Santa, 217n.4; Maria Barbella’s region of origin, 12–13, 20, 25–26; banishment of Carlo Levi, 210n.5; Joseph Stella’s region of origin, 30; human dignity in, 196 Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras (painting), 35–37, 47 Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn), New York, 165–70 bella figura, 99, 157, 220n.17, 227n.22 (definition) bella luna, la, 134 (definition) Bennett, Tony, 91, 100–101 Bensonhurst (Brooklyn), New York: as site of Yusuf Hawkins’s fatal shooting, 162–64, 177; as evoked in Do the Right Thing, 168, 170–72, 228n.8 Bergen County, New Jersey, 182; Patterson , 206 Berger, John, 214n.20 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 42 Beyond the Melting Pot (non-fiction), 218n. 12 Big Night (film), 5, 181–97 Blood of My Blood (non-fiction), 217n.5 Blue in the Face (film), 172 Boccioni, Umberto, 36–37 Boston, Massachusetts, 32–33; Spike Lee’s invocation of the Celtics, 170; social psychology of West End, 94–102, 219n.9 Bovasso, Julie, 138 Bracco, Lorraine, 200 Brace, Charles Loring, 15, 214n.1 Brando, Marlon, 119, 222n.15 Braudy, Leo, 188 Brooklyn Bridge of 1919–1920 (painting), 40–42 Brooklyn Bridge, The, 37–43, 50, 129 Brooklyn Museum of Art, 48, 225n.13 Brooklyn, New York: BedfordStuyvesant as depicted in Do the Right Thing, 165–70; Bensonhurst as evoked in Do the Right Thing, 168, 170–72, 228n.8; Bensonhurst and Yusuf Hawkins’s fatal shooting, 162–64; Cobble Hill (neighborhood of Spike Lee’s childhood), 171; Coney Island , 19, 34–37, 212n.6, 212n.7; typologically rendered in Moonstruck, 129; Williamsburg, 37 Bruce Springsteen’s America (non-fiction ), 205–7 brutta figura, 95 (definition) Buenos Aires (alternative emigration destination), 210n.6 buona cucina, la, 184–88 (definition) Burke, Kenneth, 205 Cage, Nicolas, 136 Calabria (region), Italy (invoked in Big Night), 186, 231n.9 Carradine, Keith, 150 Casciato, Arthur, 204, 233n.3 Cataldo, Domenico (Maria Barbella’s lover), 11–27 Cavalli, Roberto, 107 Chase, David, 178–79 Chase, William Merritt, 33 Cher, 138, 160 “Cherish” (music video), 224n.2 Christ in Concrete (novel), 66 “Christ in Concrete” (story), 51–71, 203; magazine version, 51–69; separately published hard-cover version, 67–71 Christ: crucifix in Big Night, 185; cruci- fixes in Madonna’s work, 155, 166; Pietro di Donato’s evocation of the crucifixion, 62–65; domestication and sensualization of the Eucharist, 184–87; icon of the Bleeding Heart, 155 Ciccone, Christopher, 153 Clarke, Donald, 218n.3, 219n.12 Clayton, Jay, 47 Click and Clack (Car Talk radio series), 224n.1 Clooney, Rosemary, 194 Coe, Jonathan, 231n.6 Cohen, Paula Marantz, 93–94, 218n.4 Coles, Robert, 205–7, 234n.8 Colombo, Joseph, Sr., 120 Coney Island Madonna (painting), 212n.7 Coney Island: as Joseph Stella’s focus, 34–37, 46, 212n.7; Maxim Gorky’s reaction to, 212n.6; wax figurine of Maria Barbella, 19 Connecticut: signless provisions in New Haven, 182; Corvo’s (bakery) in Waterbury , 187 contadini, 28 (definition) Coppola, Francis Ford, 103, 107–10, 117–26, 188; The Godfather (film), 116–21, 201–2, 207; The Godfather Part II (film), 121–26; The Godfather Part III (film), 126, 201; Screenplay of The Godfather, 222n.8 Cornelisen, Ann, 72, 77, 210n.7, 216–17n.4 corpus christi, 101 (definition) cosa nostra, la, 109 (definition) cristiano, 196 (definition) cucina, la, 184–188 (definition) Cuomo, Mario, 120, 175, 199–200 D’Acierno, Fosca, 147, 225n.15 D’Acierno, Pellegrino, 211n.1, 232n.15 dago, 14 (definition) Dangerous Classes of New York (social treatise), 15, 214n.1 Dante Alighieri, 42 Davis, Sammy, Jr., 175–76 De Grazia, Dom, 230n.18 De Laurentiis, Dino, 222n.15 De Niro, Robert, 118 De Palma, Brian, 188 deCapite, Michael, 74 Delany, Samuel R., 47 Delauney, Roberto, 44, 214n.21 Depp, Johnny, 161 Desperately Seeking Susan (film), 147, 149 Detroit, Michigan, 177 di Donato, Pietro, 50, 51–71, 72...