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Film, TV, & New Media

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July 2, 2008

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

Joey Skee

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

May 24, 2008

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.

March 5, 2008

Italians in Hollywood

Joey Skee
Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1959).

Anna Magnani's and Raf Vallone's portrayals of Italian-Americans seen anew in New York.

May 8, 2009

Routes of Return

Joey Skee
Scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960 ).

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

July 24, 2009

Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind

Joey Skee
Alfredo Bascetta (1889-1982)

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

November 29, 2009

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

Joey Skee
Uncle Nino stops to smell the flowers.

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

March 24, 2010

Visiting 15th Century Italy with my 15-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee

Gaming lessons from the Boot.

December 14, 2009

An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana

Joey Skee
Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) in front of a presepio.

The lost Christmas special of "The Honeymooners" with an Italian-American theme, from the Imaginarium of Joey Skee.

February 12, 2011

The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise Funds the Documentary Film Baci Bocce!!!

Joey Skee
A frame from Guido Anselmi’s film "BACI BOCCE!!!"

While other organizations complain incessantly about negative media images of Italian Americans, the Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise is taking the lead in cultural philanthropy.

February 4, 2010

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

Joey Skee

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

September 15, 2008

The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy

Joey Skee

What happens when a PBS station targets Italian Americans as donors?

July 29, 2008

Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son

Joey Skee
Don Homer

A “teachable moment” about mafia realities and representations.