The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang."; Class, Language, and American Film Comedy

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-460
Author(s):  
C. Rotella
1980 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian C. Sobchack

Author(s):  
Shilpa S. Davé

This chapter focuses on the film comedy Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004), an alternative to the immigrant journey often seen in Hollywood films where the old country is full of hardships, but the new country of America offers freedom and opportunity. Because the film is a stoner comedy, it is not readily recognizable as an Asian American story. However, within the genre of the stoner comedy, these films create a new narrative that normalizes Asian Americans and South Asian Americans as a central part of American culture and in the process redefines the boundaries of American regional, cultural, and national identities.


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