Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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Pier Paolo Pasolini s notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
Author/s: Louise DeSalvo
Binding: Paperback
List price: $14.95
During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's convenience-food-loving mother; Louise, meanwhile, dreams of cooking perfect fresh pasta in her own kitchen. But as Louise grows up to indulge in amazing food and travels to Italy herself, she arrives at a fuller and more compassionate picture of her own roots.
An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America
Author/s: George De Stefano
Binding: Paperback
List price: $15.00
“Invites Italian-Americans of all backgrounds to the family table to discuss how mob-related movies and television shows have affected the very notion of what their heritage still means in the 21st century.” —Allen Barra, The New York Sun
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Author/s: David R. Roediger
Binding: Paperback
List price: $18.95
At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country.
Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
Author/s: Mark Rotella
Binding: Hardcover
List price: $25.00
An effortlessly artful blend of travel book, memoir, and affectionate portrait of a peopleCalabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy—a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during the scorching summers while the sea crashes against the cliffs on both coasts. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy.
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
Author/s: Laura Schenone
Binding: Hardcover
List price: $26.95
Can a recipe change your life?
Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
Author/s: Maria Laurino
Binding: Paperback
List price: $13.95
Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity. With "intelligence and honesty" (Arizona Republic), she writes about guidos, bimbettes, and mammoni (mama's boys in Italy); examines the clashing aesthetics of Giorgio Armani and Gianni Versace; and unravels the etymology of southern Italian dialect words like gavone and bubidabetz. According to Frances Mayes, she navigates the conflicting forces of ethnicity "with humor and wisdom."
No Place Like Home. Italian Scientists and Professionals Overseas
Italy is one of the top European countries to suffer from brain drain. As its research facilities and job opportunities wane, Italian scientists and professionals look to jump-start their careers abroad—even if leaving home is a reluctant choice
July 6, 2008
Remembering Rocco Caporale
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Rocco Caporale
Noted sociologist was also the premier scholar of the 1980 Irpinia-Basilicata Earthquake
July 6, 2008
No Wonder His Happy Heart Sings
Jack DeLeo dances with his partner, Debbie Koshinski, for the Scranton Cultural Center's "Dancing with the Stars".
Take love of community, ethnic pride, and add a dash of Dean Martin and you have Scranton’s own Jack DeLeo.
Decreto sicurezza a Roma. Quando l'inverno avanza d'estate
Trastevere. Un semplice controllo. Non è un semplice controllo: tre macchine e una camionetta vuota che ha tutta l´impressione di dover essere riempita. E' entrato in vigore del decreto sicurezza, che amplia i poteri per i sindaci in materia di ordine pubblico.....
Così ricordo Rocco Caporale
Prima di tutto il suo sorriso aperto, quello che mi ha accolto insieme ad un ottimo caffè napoletano preparato da lui stesso nella sua cucina. Era il 2006, ed era la prima volta che l’incontravo, all’ultimo piano di una casa dell’Upper West Side dove poi sarei tornata diverse altre volte. Circondati da appunti, fotocopie, libri ed oggetti legati alla sua vita con la dolce moglie Taina, quel giorno dovevo parlare con Rocco Caporale del suo lavoro sui database AIRE in vista delle prime elezioni politiche italiane all’estero
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