wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
ISBN: 9780823232666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals' beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as folklore, as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate,...
Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general percept...
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202,68 zł |
Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
ISBN: 9780823232659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals' beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as folklore, as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate,...
Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general percept...
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432,17 zł |
Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema
ISBN: 9780970340368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection offers a fresh rereading and re-imagining of Italian Americans in film, from actors to directors, from subject to agency.
This collection offers a fresh rereading and re-imagining of Italian Americans in film, from actors to directors, from subject to agency.
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118,78 zł |
Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
ISBN: 9781628460131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole... For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan... |
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659,57 zł |
Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Representations
ISBN: 9781939323071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Reframing Italian America" brings to light forty-one historical photographs from the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute s Bernard Titowsky Collection, and it features essays by Dominique Padurano, Joseph Sciorra, and John Turturro. The majority of the 222 items in the Titowsky Collection depict scenes of Italian immigrant life throughout the United States from the first three decades of the twentieth century. A significant number are mounted on now-faded gray paperboard and captioned with ornate calligraphy, presumably part of a previous exhibition. The reframing of these images is...
"Reframing Italian America" brings to light forty-one historical photographs from the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute s Bernard Titowsky C...
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106,05 zł |
Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-Votos from Italy
ISBN: 9780970340375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Within Catholicism, ex-votos are votive objects presented in thanks for heavenly intercession with a misfortune such as an accident or illness. This book features two types of Italian ex-votos from the collection of Leonard Norman Primiano, dating from 1832 to 1959: metal objects in the shapes of people, afflicted body parts, or hearts, and painted narrative tablets depicting the dramatic moment of crisis for which intercession was requested. Collectively, the three essays address a history of ex-votos and their place within Catholic thought, their creation and use by Italian Americans, and...
Within Catholicism, ex-votos are votive objects presented in thanks for heavenly intercession with a misfortune such as an accident or illness. This b...
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171,03 zł |
Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
ISBN: 9781496804594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole... For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan... |
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214,16 zł |
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture Since 1945
ISBN: 9780252082917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain drain;...
This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian ...
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103,89 zł |
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture Since 1945
ISBN: 9780252041396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain drain;...
This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian ...
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472,92 zł |
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1: Politics and History Since 1945
ISBN: 9780252082450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. 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 the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions. Other essays unwrap the inner workings of multi-ethnic power brokers in a Queens community, portray the complex transformation of...
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura ...
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103,89 zł |
This Hope Sustains the Scholar
ISBN: 9781599541679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,32 zł |
New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1: Politics and History Since 1945
ISBN: 9780252040955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. 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 the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions. Other essays unwrap the inner workings of multi-ethnic power brokers in a Queens community, portray the complex transformation of...
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura ...
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472,92 zł |