Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi

SPRING 2020
ENGLISH 2003
ITALIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM
38956

Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi
Boylan 4304

Office hours:
WED  1:00- 3.30 PM
THU   1.00 - 3.30 PM (email ahead to confirm appointment.)

 

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SYLLABUS open this document to read ALL relevant information about the class

REQUIREMENT FIRST CLASS: BRING your copy of Pascal D'Angelo: SON OF ITALY
(scroll below to see list of required texts)

 REQUIRED BOOKS    EBOOKS ARE OK

  • Pascal D'Angelo
    SON OF ITALY

  • Paperback: 180 pages
    Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc. (August 14, 2003)
    ISBN-13: 978-1550710984

Pietro Di Donato
CHRIST IN CONCRETE


YOU MUST BUY THE EDITION WITH THIS COVER. USE THE ISBN AS A REFERENCE


BUY THIS EDITION

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (September 7, 2004)
ISBN: 0-451-21421-8
ISBN-13: 978-0451214218

  DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION 

  • Mario Puzo
    THE GODFATHER
    CAREFUL: THERE ARE SEVERAL EDITIONS. CHOOSE THIS VERSION
      
    Paperback: 448 pages
    Publisher: NAL Trade (March 1, 2002)
    ISBN-13: 978-0-451-16771-2

  • DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK UNTIL I TELL YOU
    AVAILABLE ONLY ONLINE


    Robert Tinnell (Author) Alex Saviuk, Ed Piskor (Illustrators)
    FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES: The Collected Comic Strip and Italian Holiday Cookbook
    Publisher: Allegheny Image Factory (Nov 1, 2005)
    ISBN-10: 0976928809

REQUIRED FILM   ALL FILMS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE LANGUAGE LAB IN BOYLAN 4316

I will make available ONLINE films that are not covered by copyright.

FOR ALL THE OTHER FILMS, ACCESS IN THE LANGUAGE LAB or USE ANY RENTAL/PURCHASE SERVICE. THE LANGUAGE LAB IS LOCATED IN BOYLAN 4316

  • The Black Hand (online)

  • The Skyscrapers of New York (online)

  • The Italian (online)

  • L'emigrante (Language lab)

  • Sacco & Vanzetti (Language lab)

  • Marty (Language Lab)

  • Moonstruck (Language Lab)

  • The Godfather Part 1 (Language Lab)

  • True Love (Language Lab)

 

YOUTUBE PLAYLIST: Old(er) COURSE LECTURES

 

LECTURES IN PERSON CLASSES

000 INTRODUCTION ON WRITING

00. LECTURE
01. LECTURE 1 Jan 30
02. LECTURE 2 Feb 4
03. LECTURE 3  Feb 6
04. LECTURE 4  Feb 11
05. LECTURE 5  Feb 18
06. LECTURE 6  Feb 20
07. LECTURE 7  FEB 25
08. LECTURE 8  FEB 27
09. LECTURE 9  MARCH 3
10. LECTURE 10 MARCH 10
11. QUIZ MARCH 19

ASSIGNMENTS IN PERSON CLASSES

02. ASSIGN FEB 4
03, ASSIGN FEB 6
04. ASSIGN FEB 11
05. ASSIGN FEB 18 
06..ASSIGN FEB 20
07  ASSIGN FEB 25
08  ASSIGN FEB 27
all assignments up to this date have been graded and returned
IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOURS, YOU HAVE ONE WEEK TO NOTIFY ME.
09 ASSIGN MARCH 3
10 ASSIGN MARCH 5
11 ASSIGN MARCH 10
12 ASSIGN MARCH 12
13 ASSIGN MARCH 17

 

 
 

COURSE MATERIALS

 

USEFUL STUFF

1. Example of good note taking
2. This is how I take notes
3. More of my note-taking
4. More notes
 

 

 


 


 

Other Course Materials

Excerpts or Chapters
 

  • Patrizia Salvetti (translated by Fabio Girelli - Carasi)
    ROPE AND SOAP: Lynchings of Italians in the United States
    Available free online by permission of the author and translator for this course only.

  • Giuseppe Prezzolini (translated by Fabio Girelli - Carasi)
    The Transplanted
    Available free online by permission of the author and translator for this course only.

  • Anthony Tamburri
    A Semiotic of Ethnicity
    Available free online by permission of the author for this course only.

 

 

COURSE MATERIALS

OTHER INTERESTING MATERIALS (contemporary)

THE GREAT MIGRATION
African Americans experienced a huge mass migration from the South to the North particularly before and after WWII. Given the enormous differences between North and South at that time, this was a true migration with many of the same features of migrations from abroad.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, talks about her book, now in paperback, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, as listeners share their families' stories of moving away from the Jim Crow south.

http://www.wnyc.org/story/171309-great-migration/

CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS
From the NYTIMES Sept.2014
Personal stories about growing up as immigrants in New York City today.

IMMIGRANT DEATHS ON CONSTRUCTION SITES (NYTIMES)

 

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