{"product_id":"an-offer-we-cant-refuse-george-de-stefano-9780865479623","title":"An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative and entertaining look at the mafia, the media, and the (un)making of Italian Americans.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs evidenced in countless films, novels, and television portrayals, the Mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural imagination--even as it continues to wrongly color our real-life perception of Italian Americans. In \u003ci\u003eAn Offer We Can't Refuse, \u003c\/i\u003e George De Stefano takes a close look at the origins and prevalence of the Mafia mythos in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with a consideration of Italian emigration in the early twentieth century and the fear and prejudice--among both Americans and Italians--that informed our earliest conception of what was at the time the largest immigrant group to enter the United States, De Stefano explores how these impressions laid the groundwork for the images so familiar to us today and uses them to illuminate and explore the variety and allure of Mafia stories--from Coppola's romanticized paeans to Scorsese's bloody realism to the bourgeois world of David Chase's Sopranos--while discussing the cultural richness often contained in these works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDe Stefano addresses the lingering power of the goodfella clich? and the lamentable extent to which it is embedded in our consciousness, making it all but impossible to green-light a project about the Italian American experience not set in gangland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Invites Italian-Americans of all backgrounds to the family table to discuss how mob-related movies and television shows have affected the very notion of what their heritage still means in the 21st century.\" -- Allen Barra, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George de Stefano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865479623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865479623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 5.56w x 1.16d","brand":"George de Stefano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46292900872447,"sku":"9780865479623","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60c73f93-f5a6-4330-97e8-2a7f4ad397e0.jpg?v=1730210500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-offer-we-cant-refuse-george-de-stefano-9780865479623","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}