Italian American Culture, Film and Literature

Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi

 

 LECTURE 2 --
Attendance

Again,

  • email address (only BCMAIL)
  • photo, right size and file name
  •  quiz 1

You won't receive emails until you send quiz 1.

 
VIEW SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT with instructions 
BLOG review
Assignments: usually I try to read the assignments as they come in to get an idea and pick some outstanding examples. They serve as standards for the rest of the class.

 

Two ideas of what college is about

VIEW


 

Or maybe this is what college is about.
Introduce
3.

 

The early years --  ITALIAN AMERICANS IN CARTOONS ---
 

Lecture 1
7.
 

Lecture 2
8.
 

 

 

 

The early years --  ITALIAN AMERICANS IN FILMS ---
THE BLACK HAND  (1906)

 9.
 
THE SKYSCRAPERS OF NEW YORK  (1906)

 10.
 

 

ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

ITALIAN IMMIGRATION
Lecture


The process of immigration and integration.
The collective experience.

  

The first Italians in America

   

Irish Italians and Jews

 

 

The Great Migration   ---- African Americans
The Warmth of Other Suns  Audio

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, talks about her book, now in paperback,

 

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS       https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html

as listeners share their families' stories of moving away from the Jim Crow south.

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

 

 
JACOB LAWRENCE  The Migration Series 
 https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/panel/1/

Charles Blow The Devil You Know    

 

 

 

 

ITALIAN LANGUAGE
language is identity

 

 

INTRODUCTION SON OF ITALY