Representing Sacco and Vanzetti

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.

Author: J. Delamater,M. Trasciatti
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/13/2005
Pages: 179
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781403967381

About the Author
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.