Hollywood’s Depiction of Italian American Servicemen During the Italian Campaign of World War II

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23 juin 2020

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Italian Americans; Servicemen; Hollywood; War movies; Italy


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Matteo Pretelli, « Hollywood’s Depiction of Italian American Servicemen During the Italian Campaign of World War II », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.15758


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This article analyzes the portrayal of Italian American servicemen in Hollywood films set in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II (1943-1945) and produced from the time of the war to the present. Addressing this widely overlooked theme, the study shows how the American film industry perceived and represented one of the largest ethnic groups in the US forces, who were deployed to liberate their ancestral country from Axis control. Special attention is paid to representations of the servicemen's relationship with the Italian population and to their expressions of American patriotism.

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