Average Community (2010), 86 min. Fred Zara, dir.
Growing up in Trenton, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, filmmaker Fred Zara went by the name Fred Fatal, played drums in a punk-rock band called…
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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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Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the evil eye became the internationally recognized symbol for heavy metal music? What does the “Frank…
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Gioia Timpanelli reads from What Makes a Child Lucky (W.W. Norton, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Acclaimed storyteller Gioia Timpanelli presents her latest book, a novella of danger and survival in late nineteenth-century rural Sicily. After his best friend is killed…
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Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036William Issel, San Francisco State University William Issel, author of For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War…
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Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Giorgio Bertellini, University of MichiganThe picturesque, once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, came to symbolize Southern Europe through comforting views…
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Totó (2009), 128 min. Peter Schreiner, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Calabrian immigrant Antonio Cotroneo lives in Vienna with his Austrian wife and their four sons and works as an usher at the city’s famed Konzerthaus.…
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Performing Italian in the American Songbook
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mark Rotella In the years after World War II and before the advent of the Beatles, Italian-American performers captivated the American public with a smooth,…
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Frank Lentricchia reads from The Italian Actress (State University of New York Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchia’s sixth novel features protagonist Jack Del Piero, a has-been, “former avant-garde” filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for his experimental work but…
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DIGITAL POLAROIDS OF ITALY, 1986 – 2010
Photographs by Franc PalaiaJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Artist’s reception January 20, 2011, 6 pm On view January 20 – April 1, 2011 Click here for full exhibition catalogue. Color digital prints from…
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Paula Butturini reads from Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy (Riverhead, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Journalists Paula Butturini and John Tagliabue met in Italy in 1985 and four years later married in Rome. Less than a month after the wedding,…
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Ironies of Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Robert Garot, John Jay College In a world marked by increasing migration and globalization, the political and social rights of citizenship may not always be…
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My American Family (2004), 70 min. Jerzy Sladkowski, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the early twentieth century, members of the Merenda family emigrated to the United States from Paterno Calabro (Cosenza Province), Calabria. Over the decades, the…
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