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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.

The Wrestler: Why This Film Appeals to Some Italian-Americans

Marc Edward DiPaolo

While not as great as people say, Darren Aronofsky's latest film has a lot in it that speaks to Italian-Americans. At least, some my age from NY and NJ, that is.

LaVeritàLaVerdadTheTruth

Joey Skee

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?!

Joey Skee

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

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

Brigand or Emigrant, but Ultimately Film Protagonist

Joey Skee

Representations of brigands have shaped and continue to reshape perceptions of Italy and its people throughout the world.

Linking the Diaspora Cinematically

Joey Skee

Australia’s Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and their Families holds its “The Weird Mob 2: The Italian Invasion” Film Festival.

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