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Roberto Saviano and the Problems of Italian America

(03 01 2012) Anthony Julian Tamburri

Along with the various observations that have been made by three of our esteemed colleagues (De Stefano, Gardaphé, Krase), and I must emphasize that I am in agreement as well...

Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast

(31 07 2010) Laura E. Ruberto

John Fante’s and Richard Quine’s 1956 film, "Full of Life," constructs California Italian culture, one brick at a time.

Photographs of Jack Salvatori, the British Valentino

(21 03 2010) Laura E. Ruberto

On having received an envelope mailed to Berkeley, California from Cornwall, England with photographs of the Italo-British filmmaker and actor, Giovanni “Jack” Salvatori.

Alice nel paese delle meraviglie gotiche

(05 03 2010) Simone Spoladori

Alice in Wonderland di Tim Burton non è un adattamento dei romanzi di Lewis Carroll bensì una sorta di terzo capitolo di esse, con cui il regista californiano si candida alla...

Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco

(03 02 2010) Laura E. Ruberto

Capturing Italy’s encounter with California in Frank Capra’s documentary "La visita dell’ Incrociatore Italiano Libia a San Francisco, Calif., 6-29 Novembre 1921"

The Film Festival of Positive Italian-American Images

(29 11 2009) Joey Skee

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

Giuseppe Gagliardi and Peppe Voltarelli Take San Diego

(08 11 2009) Pasquale Verdicchio

Film maker Giuseppe Gagliardi and actor/musician Peppe Voltarelli visit the San Diego Italian Film Festival in occasion of the screening of their film, La vera leggenda di Tony...

66a Mostra del cinema di Venezia: considerazioni e riletture

(18 09 2009) Simone Spoladori

Poche sorprese nelle assegnazioni dei premi finali. Va in archivio un'edizione di buon livello, attraversata da enormi contraddizioni.

Uncredited Extras: Cinecittà’s Refugees and the Italian American Who Filmed Them

(09 08 2009) Laura E. Ruberto

Jack Salvatori, an almost-forgotten Italian American director, made a film about Cinecittà’s role as a camp for WWII refugees.

Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind

(24 07 2009) Joey Skee

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) 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

(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.

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