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Whose Family Values?

George De Stefano

Director Ferzan Ozpetek’s new film challenges Italian attitudes

Fear and (Self-) Loathing in Italian America

Joey Skee

The Specter of the Gavon Haunts the Prominenti.

Frank Capra Films Italian-San Francisco

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

Joey Skee

Positive images of Italian-Americans that aren’t.

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

Laura E. Ruberto

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

A Conversation with Justin Ambrosino

Chiara Montalto

Several years ago, in a writing group at the Calandra Institute, I got to know a young film director named Justin Ambrosino. Below is a conversation that Justin and I recently had...

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.

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