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Mirella Bontempo

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Italian vigilante flicks: vengeance and popular culture

Caveat: There is a reason I’ve largely avoided the Italian crime thriller/poliziotteschi genre all my life. That’s what Tele-Italia aired on Montréal’s defunct ethnic TV channel, along with La Piovra mafia series and commedia sexy all’italiana (Edwige Fenech, Banfi or […]


Film Review

Reclaiming the screens: Reviews of Trickster and Inconvenient Indian

“We were all family: witches, tricksters, what the ancients call cycles, balances and harmony.”


Film Review

Dispatches from TIFF 2018 43rd Edition

    This was my third time at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It was also Piers Handling’s final year as the TIFF director, with Joana Vicente now as its new director – a sign of the times reflected […]


Romani, Love and Italy: On Reading Nawrocki’s Cazzarola

Romani, Love and Italy: On Reading Nawrocki’s Cazzarola

Cazzarola! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy: A Novel, Norman Nawrocki, PM Press, 318 pages   Disclosure: I always loved gypsy culture. From Tony Gatlif’s films to his soundtracks and sometimes even the works by non-Romani Balkan filmmakers who examine or exploit […]


PART 2: The Postwar Period:  Canzoni di denunica and Musica Impegnata

PART 2: The Postwar Period: Canzoni di denunica and Musica Impegnata

  Popular Southern folk singer and autodidact guitarist, Matteo Salvatore’s pastoral hell themes weren’t observed from a privileged distance. He hailed from a very poor family that begged and stole vegetables in Puglia, where the Latifondisti exploited landless peasants. These […]


Italian protest songs: Canti popolari, canzoni DI denuncia & musica impegnata

Italian protest songs: Canti popolari, canzoni DI denuncia & musica impegnata

In a country where Opera was invented, it is no wonder that love songs seem to be omnipresent and over-represented. On the flipside, amorous passions lead to political ones. The bulk of these protest songs about rebellion do indeed date […]


The Other English-Canadian film: Indo-Canadian cinema

The Other English-Canadian film: Indo-Canadian cinema

Indo-Canadian filmmakers have contributed to bringing stories and faces that we don’t see in Canadian Cinema. Srinivas Krishna (Masala, 1991) refuses to be dubbed a Canadian filmmaker. Eisha Marjara (Desperately Seeking Helen, 1998) and transpacific phenomenon Deepa Mehta, who films […]


Canadian Cinema: Sexy?
Commentary

Canadian Cinema: Sexy?

Confronted with the query --“Are Canadian films sexy … question mark?” - - I was baffled as what angle to take.


The Multicultural Panic
Essay

The Multicultural Panic

The mass shootings in Utoya, Norway seemed to have shocked the average person, who has never noticed the trends and the blunt comments on television made by politicos in which racism camouflages itself as snide commentary. Society has become complacent […]


Commentary

The Dumbing-Down Revolution will be Televised

The anomaly that is Italy– where a media mogul can have total control of the private and public television, print media and have friends filling in the abyss– is something that the rest of the world cannot fathom. What if […]


Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby!

Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby!

  After years of denouncing Mother Country’s contempt for its emigrants stuck in the 1950s, I am airing the dirty laundry. What makes the immigrants stuck? I do not see peasantry as pejorative, just for some pernicious superstitions passed down […]


Italophobia: more of a generalized malady – part 2
Commentary

Italophobia: more of a generalized malady – part 2

Part 1 is contained in Volume 20 No. 1 – ed Only until recently, the fabled term Italophobia emerged and remained in the domain of cultural studies but remained inaccessible to its own people. What were accessible were the snide […]


Italophobia: more of a generalized malady
Commentary

Italophobia: more of a generalized malady

Part 1 – Given the size of this article it will be published in 2 pieces. Part 1 in Vol 20 No 1 and Part 2 in Vol 20 No 2. Dedicated to: To my maternal great grandfather D. M, […]


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