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  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2

    Art and Culture since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Anthony Julian Tamburri, John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata Inserra, Laura E Ruberto ...
    This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1

    Politics and History since 1945

    by Joseph Sciorra, Donna R. Gabaccia, Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E Ruberto, Donald Tricarico1, Elizabeth Zanoni2 ...
    Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women's Work in Italy and the U.S.

    by Laura E. Ruberto ...
    This book considers cultural representations of four different types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic servants in Italy in the second half of the twentieth century (including contemporary immigrants from non-western countries); cinematic ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Modern Italy

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  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

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  • Are Italians White?

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  • Storming Heaven

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  • The Cultures of Italian Migration

    Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives

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  • Vital Crises in Italian Cinema

    Iconography, Stylistics, Politics

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    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

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