The 1963 film Love with the Proper Stranger dealt with the limited choices faced by an Italian American woman a decade before abortion was legalized in the U.S.
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While not as great as people say, Darren Aronofsky's latest film has a lot in it that speaks to Italian-Americans. At least, some my age from NY and NJ, that is. -
Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.
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Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
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My random encounter with a Hollywood Italian American labor activist.
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A “teachable moment” about mafia realties and representations.
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What Frank Capra and an obscure William Wellman western might tell us about Italian American women
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The Pax Corleone, or what happens when two political analysts offer a close reading of "The Godfather" in an effort to explain contemporary US politics
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Musings on heroes, role models, and the Italian-American imaginative
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Representations of brigands have shaped and continue to reshape perceptions of Italy and its people throughout the world.
