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Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind

(23 07 2009) Joseph Sciorra

The shared histories of Neapolitan singer Alfredo Bascetta and political activist/film worker Gino Bardi are revealed by a Brooklyn walkabout.

Routes of Return

(08 05 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film "L’avventura" provides a cinematic voyage back to Italy.

Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade

(04 04 2009) Laura E. Ruberto

The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.

LaVeritàLaVerdadTheTruth

(28 02 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.

What’s his name?! What’s his name?!

(18 02 2009) Joseph Sciorra

Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.

Garment Workers and Union Activists in Tinsel Town

(04 10 2008) Laura E. Ruberto

My random encounter with a Hollywood Italian American labor activist.

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

(29 07 2008) Joseph Sciorra

A “teachable moment” about mafia realities and representations.

Westward the Women

(07 07 2008) Laura E. Ruberto

What Frank Capra and an obscure William Wellman western might tell us about Italian American women.

Clemenza and Tessio are like Britain and France

(03 07 2008) Laura E. Ruberto

The Pax Corleone, or what happens when two political analysts offer a close reading of "The Godfather" in an effort to explain contemporary US politics.