Translating Identities: The Italian as 'Other' in Two Early American Films

Dennis Barone looks at the representation of Italians in American film, asserting that films like The Italian (Reginald Barker, 1915) and Poor Little Peppina (Sidney Olcott, 1916) demonstrate that long before post-war Italian imports or Depression-era gangster films, American cinema promoted some troubling imagery about Italian-American immigrants.