The Intrepid Giuseppe Pitrè and his Collection of Sicilian Folk Tales
Jack 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Marisa Labozzetta reads from At the Copa (Guernica, 2007).
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036With humor and poignancy, these stories expose the social and sexual turmoil of men and women in “the old age of youth.” In “The Knife…
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Poetry in Action: A Portrait of Vincent Ferrini (2000), 58 min. Henry Ferrini, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Poem in Action captures the world of poet Vincent Ferrini and his commitment to the unity of art and life in what he called “the…
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Magic in the Mezzogiorno: The Anthropology of Ernesto De Martino
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Dorothy Louise Zinn (Università degli Studi della Basilicata) Ernesto De Martino (1908-1965) is widely acknowledged to be a founding figure of cultural anthropology in Italy,…
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Suze Rotolo reads from A Freewheelin� Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties (Broadway Books, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand account of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and her relationship with Bob Dylan. Rotolo grew up during…
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Se la pietra sapesse parlare/If Stone Could Speak (2007), 67 min. Randy Croce, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thousands of stonecutters emigrated from northern Italy to Barre, Vermont, the “Granite Capital of the World.” These scalpellini carved impressive sculptures that still grace public…
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Robert Tinnell presents his graphic novel Feast of the Seven Fishes (Allegheny Image Factory, 2005)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A 2006 Eisner Award-nominee for “Best Graphic Album: Reprint,” Feast of the Seven Fishes is a hardcover collection of the online strip serialized in 2004-2005…
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Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mario B. Mignone (Stony Brook University) Based on his book Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the New Millennium (Peter Lang, 2007), Mario Mignone will…
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Carl Capotorto reads from Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir (Broadway Books, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Twisted Head is a witty and poignant memoir of a young man growing up in a working-class Italian-American family in the Bronx during the 1960s…
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Magic Man (2007), 80 min. Tammy Leach, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Magic Man traces Paul Malignaggi’s life from his experiences of paternal cruelty and abandonment to his peripatetic childhood in Brooklyn and Sicily. His successful career…
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