Representing Sacco and Vanzetti

ISBN-13: 9781403967381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 182 str.

Mary Anne Trasciatti; Jerome A. Delamater

Opis

Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested outside Boston in 1920 and charged with robbing and killing a shoe factory paymaster and his guard. Though a prosecutor insisted they would be tried for murder and 'nothing else', their radical politics remained a focus of the 1921 trial. Contributors from a range of academic disciplines and artistic traditions apply critical and interpretive methodologies, assume novel historical perspectives, and analyze overlooked primary materials to illuminate previously unexplored aspects of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The essays in this book analyze literary, artistic, and mass mediated representations of Sacco and Vanzetti, linking them to stereotypes of so-called 'foreigners' and 'others' that prevailed in the 1920s, and interrogating those images that prevail in our own age.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Sacco and Vanzetti Case: 1920-2003; M.A.Trasciatti & J.Delamater PART ONE: HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI The Beautiful Idea: Italian Anarchism from Malatesta to Tresca; S.Pugliese The American Campaign to Save Sacco and Vanzetti; M.A.Trasciatti Transatlantic Solidarities: The Sacco Vanzetti Case in Europe; L.McGirr PART TWO: THE MAKING OF A MYTH: SACCO AND VANZETTI IN ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM Sacco and Vanzetti: The Italian American Legacy; F.Gardaphe Ben Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Revisited; A.Anreus 'Ora e Sempre Resistenza!': Sacco and Vanzetti on Screen; G.Monti PART THREE: (RE)PRESENTING SACCO AND VANZETTI 'Hearts that Grow Not Cold': Structures of Feeling and Vanzetti's Beloved Anarchy; D.Lang Sacco and Vanzetti on the Musical Stage; L.Lehrman Historical Documentary: Problems, Purposes, Ideals - A Conversation with Peter Miller PART FOUR: THE MEDIA AND 'THE OTHER': FROM ITALIAN AMERICANS TO ARAB AMERICANS White Others: The Politics of Racial Hierarchy and 'Americanness' from Sacco and Vanzetti to a Post 9/11 World; J.Twomey From Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu Jamal: Is Innocence Irrelevant?; E.L.Grossman, Esq. 'The Case that Will Not Die': The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti; H.Zinn

O autorze

JEROME A. DELAMATER is a Professor in the School of Communication at Hofstra University, USA and the author of Dance in the Hollywood Musical, and co-editor of Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction and The Detective in Fiction and Film.

MARY ANNE TRASCIATTI is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Hofstra University, USA.