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Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò at NYU. A Free Arena in the City

Marina Melchionda

“Our aim has always been to offer a free forum, where all ideas can be discussed. Academic freedom is the first principle that we respect”. Past and future at Casa Italiana...

Routes of Return

Joey Skee

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

Italian American Romance in the Era Before Roe v. Wade

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.

Italian Spiderman! Mistery, Parody, and Stereotypes

Antonio Enrico Buonocore

An interview with Dario Russo, the Italian-Australian film student who invented the fortunate web series.

Garment Workers and Union Activists in Tinsel Town

Laura E. Ruberto

My random encounter with a Hollywood Italian American labor activist.

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.

Westward the Women

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

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

Watching “Serpico” with my Thirteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative

The Race Debate in America and Italy: Should We Do the Right Thing?

Ottorino Cappelli

While Obama clinches the nomination, some Italian- Americans join in the Lee-Eastwood feud over racial prejudices in America. In Italy at the same time, the race issue surfaces in...

A Clear Sign of Renaissance for Italian Cinema

A. D.C.

Professor Antonio Monda on Italian cinema's promising future...

Le Conversazioni

Andrea Di Camillo

An exciting documentary (yes--they do exist!) called "Le Conversazioni" ("Conversations") shot in Capri was presented at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU). The main topic...

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