Louis Prima: The Wildest! (2000), 82 min.
Jazz trumpeter and consummate showman Louis Prima came to epitomize the night club and lounge scene of the 1950s and 1960s while reaching American homes…
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Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036
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Danielle Trussoni reads from Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Growing up in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Danielle Trussoni was fascinated by stories of her dad’s adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Ultimately, she came…
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Italians in the Americas
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This conference is dedicated to the myriad experiences of Italians in the Americas. It is a unique opportunity for scholarly communities in North and South…
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Richard Vetere reads from Machiavelli and Caravaggio
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Pulitzer-nominated playwright Richard Vetere reads from his recently published plays Machiavelli and Caravaggio, which both premiered in 2006. Machiavelli explores the Italian’s personal and political…
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Italian in Florida: Shifting Identities in the Wake of Assimilation
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Denise Scannell, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Tampa’s Italian Americans express a counter-discourse disputing the discourse of assimilation in which Italian-American ethnic identity…
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Italian Divas in American Film: Changing Images of Italian Womanhood
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Vera Dika, New Jersey City University The image of Italian-American women has changed over the course of film history. In American film, this female character…
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My Brother, My Sister, Sold for a Fistful of Lire, (1998), 90 min. Basile Sallustio, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036In 1952, Pia Dilisa was ten-years-old when she last saw her younger brother Dominic and sister Antoinetta perched atop a donkey leaving their mountain village…
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Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Notorious Mayor (2007), 86 min. Cherry Arnold, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036As the longest-serving mayor in recent history, Vincent “Buddy” Cianci of Providence, Rhode Island remains one of the country’s most controversial political figures. Cianci’s unflagging…
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Karen Tintori reads from her memoir Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family (St. Martins Press. 2007).
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Unto the Daughters is a historical mystery and family story that unwraps layers of family, honor, memory, and fear to reveal an honor killing in…
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The Intrepid Giuseppe Pitrè and his Collection of Sicilian Folk Tales
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, and Joseph Russo, Haverford College The true treasures of European folklore are buried not in Germany, but in Sicily, and…
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Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Movies (2007), 58 min. Steven Fischler, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Filled with clips from classic films and an all-star list of interviewees, Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Movies takes a comprehensive look at the…
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From “Terrone” to “Extra-comunitario”: The Evolution of Racism in Italian Cinema
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Grace Russo Bullaro (Lehman College) In films of the New Italian Cinema such as Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), and Ciao, Professore! (1992), the…
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