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Hollywood, Italian Americans, and the Golden Coast

Laura E. Ruberto

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

The Makers of Magic Mop Infomercials and a Sh*t-Flinging Monkey are Insulted by Comparison to Darrell Fusaro

Darrell Fusaro

Freedom, is it worth the risk?

Photographs of Jack Salvatori, the British Valentino

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.

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.

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