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Italian Spiderman! Mistery, Parody, and Stereotypes

Antonio Enrico Buonocore

An interview with Dario Russo, the Italian-Australian film student who invented the fortunate web series.

How I found the Italian in me.

Crystal May Ainardi

I’ve never read the book, “Were You Always an Italian?” by Maria Laurino, so I won’t pretend I have, but the reviews are a mixed bag

Whites on a Leash: Italian Americans and White Privilege in the U.S.

Fred Gardaphe

If not totally black, Italians have certainly complicated the notion of whiteness in America so that they are neither totally white, and it is this in-between status, that makes...

James Bond Hates Italians

Marc Edward DiPaolo

We all know that Bond hates women. But he's also leery of Italians, and Americans, and everyone who isn't British. However, he just LOVES scrambled eggs

“Mount Allegro” revisited in terms of Gribaudi and Dickie’s historiography

Tom Verso

The first lesson that an historian must learn before 'putting pen to paper' is that “with pen and paper anyone can write anything.” A document cannot be thought of as a...

Art vs. Reality: Why Italian Americans like “Mob Movies”

Tom Verso

If critiques of movie/TV shows get beyond the criminality and make more comprehensive literary critiques of these dramas, they will find many positive literary qualities which may...

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