Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology .The Italian “diva film” of the silent era provided a forum for denouncing social evils and exploring new…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Merica (2007), 65 min. Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini, and Francesco Ragazzi, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Merica investigates the complexities of migration and the migrant’s desire for national belonging using the parallel stories of Italian immigration to Brazil in the 1800s…
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Mike Cavallaro reads from Parade (With Fireworks) (Image Comics, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mike Cavallaro’s comic is based on a family story that takes place during the Feast of the Epiphany in 1923 Calabria. Tensions are high between…
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Steven J. Belluscio discusses and reads from The Grand Gennaro by Garibaldi M. Lapolla (Rutgers University Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036First published in 1935, The Grand Gennaro is considered a cornerstone of early Italian-American fiction. It now appears newly edited and with an introduction by…
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Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Yiorgos Kalogeras will discuss how Elia Kazan’s America-America (1963) serves as an archetype for two recent films dealing with…
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Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference is dedicated to the theme of cultural landscapes. The conference addresses issues concerning placemaking in…
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Le Ragazze di Trieste (2008), 45 min. Chiara Barbo and Andrea Magnani, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the years following World War II, the city of Trieste was under the control of the Anglo-American Allied Military Government as both the Italian…
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Ricordati di noi! (2007), 26 min. Paul Tana, dir.
Ho fatto il mio coraggio (2009), 50 min. Giovanni Princigalli, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036These two films look at post-World War II Italian immigration to Montreal and the ways in which it is remembered. Ho fatto il mio coraggio…
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Penny Arcade presents Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (MIT Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force in the New York art scene and an originator of what has…
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From Gangsters to Gangstas: African Americans, Italian Americans, and the Culture of Crime
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kimberly Sims, American University The idea that there is a similarity between Italian-American and African-American criminality dates back to the late nineteenth century and persists…
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Salina doc Fest
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