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

(12 02 2011) Joey Skee

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

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.

Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America

(04 02 2010) Joey Skee

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

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.

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.

LaVeritàLaVerdadTheTruth

(01 03 2009) Joey Skee

Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.

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