Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi

SPRING 2021
ENGLISH 2003
ITALIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM


Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi
Boylan 4304

PERSONAL HOMEPAGE

 

Office hours:
THU 12.30-1.30PM
FRI 12.00 - 1.00 PM

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


BUY THIS EDITION

  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

 FILMS

The Black Hand (online)
The Skyscrapers of New York (online)
The Italian (online)
L'emigrante
Sacco & Vanzetti
Marty
Moonstruck
Give Us This Day
The Godfather Part 1
True Love

COURSE EMAIL ADDRESS
english2003spring2021@oggi-domani.com

BLOG
https://english2003-spring2021.blogspot.com/

SYLLABUS

LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS are from the previous semester.
They are listed here only as EXAMPLES of the kind of work we are going to do.

The course structure will be similar but I will make a lot of changes to each individual lecture. You can use these entries to get a sense of what is ahead but do not expect the same content or materials

 

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Due JANUARY 29  and QUIZ 1

Quiz about the syllabus. Due by classtime (9.00 AM). It will be ready on January 25. I will send it individually after receiving the first email message (see Blackboard for instructions.)


 
All assignments since spring break have been graded and returned.

If you are missing them:

1) check your email inbox to see if they are there.

2) check spam folder

3) CHECK the messages you sent. Maybe the subject had the wrong information or date.

4) Check the file names - was the date correct? How about the format (docx?

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IF YOU ARE STILL MISSING THEM, write me with the exact dates ONLY FOR COMPITI AFTER SPRING BREAK.

 

 

 

FINAL EXAM VOTES
 

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All assignments since spring break have been graded and returned.

If you are missing them:

1) check your email inbox to see if they are there.

2) check spam folder

3) CHECK the messages you sent. Maybe the subject had the wrong information or date.

4) Check the file names - was the date correct? How about the format (docx?

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IF YOU ARE STILL MISSING THEM, write me with the exact dates ONLY FOR COMPITI AFTER SPRING BREAK.

 

12. LECTURE MAY 7
13. LECTURE MAY 14

 

 


 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

04. SEPT 8 Italian Irish Jews

05. LECTURE The Great Migration (USA from South to North) cinema Intro Son

06. LECTURE Son  Salvetti  Prezzolini intro

07. LECTURE Italian journalists/reporters/Prezzolini

08. LECTURE The Italian -The Way They Lived

09. LECTURE Anti-Italianism - Familism Immigrants songs - Farfariello ItAm lingo

10. LECTURE   Political activism L'emigrante  Wall Street

11. LECTURE Sacco e Vanzetti

12. LECTURE Give us This day - Christ in Concrete

13. LECTURE Christ in Concrete

14. LECTURE Christ in Concrete

15. LECTURE The Godfather (Puzo)

16. LECTURE The Godfather (Coppola)

17. LECTURE Marty   7 Fishes

18. LECTURE Kiss me Guido  True Love

19. WORKSHEET FOR THE FINAL

ASSIGNMENTS

01. ASSIGNMENT

02. ASSIGNMENT 

03. ASSIGNMENTS

04. ASSIGNMENT

05. ASSIGNMENT

06. ASSIGNMENT

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08. ASSIGNMENT

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16. ASSIGNMENT

 

 

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS

GOOD NOTE-TAKING
 coming soon


1. while reading a book (raw)
2. while reading (using notepad, raw)
3. while reading Godfather (raw)
4. typed with links (Son of Italy)
5. typed by chapter (Godfather)
6. Bullet style and summary style
7. typed 'impressions' (Christ in Concrete)
7. typed summary-commenst' (Moonstruck)
 

PLAYLIST: videos, documentaries, films etc. related to the course content.

 

Video ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
https://youtu.be/WaxeyHAOTWA 

Video MEDIEVAL ITALIAN TOWNS
 https://youtu.be/rlDqSRJv0-Y

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES - inventory

Photos

emigrante
 

EXTRA REPOSITORY

 

 

 


 


 

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)

The Constitution does not guarantee the right of voting

Course homepage

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/courses/2021.SPRING.COURSES/ENGLISH.2003.spring2021/0.SPRING.2021.HOMEPAGE.english2003.htm

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