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Monographs by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
A Companion to the Gangster Film, 2019
In questo volume viene esaminata la produzione cinematografica di Ferzan Özpetek per quanto conce... more In questo volume viene esaminata la produzione
cinematografica di Ferzan Özpetek
per quanto concerne le tematiche del
colore, dell’identità sessuale e della migrazione.
Viene delineata una definizione
della teoria queer per poi applicarla ai film
diretti dal regista di origini turche seguendo
i temi conduttori della famiglia, della
memoria e del cibo.
Dal punto di vista cinematografico, Özpetek
viene qui presentato come un regista
“italiano” contemporaneo, sottolineando
come egli non abbia più l’“accento” turco
di cui parla Hamid Naficy, e come anzi
i suoi film raccontino e commentino con
grande efficacia le rapide trasformazioni
della società italiana contemporanea.
Papers by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Quaderni d'Italianistica, May 10, 2019
Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture, 2017
Cristina Comencini’s 2005 film La bestia nel cuore confronts the traditional cinematic gaze, crea... more Cristina Comencini’s 2005 film La bestia nel cuore confronts the traditional cinematic gaze, creating an alternative vision of femaleness and female behavior, according to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder’s essay “Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the ‘Fourth’ Gaze in La bestia nel cuore.” He identifies in Comencini’s work an internal gaze that steers female characters to a state of empowerment. The originality of this narrative technique is reinforced by the focus on both heterosexual and lesbian sexual desire, creating an inclusive work that embraces a myriad of female experiences. Comencini significantly transforms the concept of the cinematic gaze while also offering a vision of a more diverse, tolerant, and inclusive cinema.
Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2018
Studies in European Cinema
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association
Quaderni d'italianistica, 2018
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2021
grammar, specifically the increased use of the form stare + gerund at the expense of andare and v... more grammar, specifically the increased use of the form stare + gerund at the expense of andare and venire + gerund. Finally, Laura Pinnavaia reverts the point of view and studies instead the influence of Italian borrowings in British and American English, through data from two important dictionaries, the Oxford and the Merriam-Webster. These fifteen essays, sixteen if we count the Introduction with its conceptual framing of key-terms such as ‘mapping’ (a desire to define and categorize) and ‘cultural change’ in the ‘long American century’, are all well-written, compact treatments of original topics. The idea of a shifting Italian cultural identity finds an interested reader in me, as I organize each year the international Symposium ‘Italy in Transit’ at Florida Atlantic University (since 2017) looking for similar conceptual fluidities. Such a kaleidoscope of brilliant scholarship is a feast for anyone interested in the fertile processes of contamination. Not only has the exploration of...
The American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) was inaugurated at the 1923 MLA Convention... more The American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) was inaugurated at the 1923 MLA Convention hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From that early moment, the organization began to expand rapidly and today the AATI is one of the largest organizations of Italian Studies internationally. This brief contribution will highlight some of the most noteworthy moments of evolution for both Italica, the official journal of the AATI, and the organization as a whole. Included are lists of past officers and noteworthy events in our history.
Amara Lakhous, scrittore italoalgerino, è autore di sei libri scritti in italiano. È considerato ... more Amara Lakhous, scrittore italoalgerino, è autore di sei libri scritti in italiano. È considerato uno scrittore di migrazione, sebbene l’etichetta gli stia un po’ stretta. In questa intervista racconta la sua esperienza in Italia, come migrante, prima a Roma e poi a Torino. Racconta il suo modo di scrivere, l’importanza che attribuisce al linguaggio e la sua idea di ri-scrittura. L’intervista si conclude con alcune considerazioni sul romanzo e sul giallo, e con un paragone tra la sua produzione e quella del giallo italiano tradizionale: Sciascia, Camilleri, e Gadda.
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 2018
A Companion to the Gangster Film, 2019
In questo volume viene esaminata la produzione cinematografica di Ferzan Özpetek per quanto conce... more In questo volume viene esaminata la produzione
cinematografica di Ferzan Özpetek
per quanto concerne le tematiche del
colore, dell’identità sessuale e della migrazione.
Viene delineata una definizione
della teoria queer per poi applicarla ai film
diretti dal regista di origini turche seguendo
i temi conduttori della famiglia, della
memoria e del cibo.
Dal punto di vista cinematografico, Özpetek
viene qui presentato come un regista
“italiano” contemporaneo, sottolineando
come egli non abbia più l’“accento” turco
di cui parla Hamid Naficy, e come anzi
i suoi film raccontino e commentino con
grande efficacia le rapide trasformazioni
della società italiana contemporanea.
Quaderni d'Italianistica, May 10, 2019
Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture, 2017
Cristina Comencini’s 2005 film La bestia nel cuore confronts the traditional cinematic gaze, crea... more Cristina Comencini’s 2005 film La bestia nel cuore confronts the traditional cinematic gaze, creating an alternative vision of femaleness and female behavior, according to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder’s essay “Beyond the Male Gaze: Conceiving the ‘Fourth’ Gaze in La bestia nel cuore.” He identifies in Comencini’s work an internal gaze that steers female characters to a state of empowerment. The originality of this narrative technique is reinforced by the focus on both heterosexual and lesbian sexual desire, creating an inclusive work that embraces a myriad of female experiences. Comencini significantly transforms the concept of the cinematic gaze while also offering a vision of a more diverse, tolerant, and inclusive cinema.
Journal of Popular Film and Television, 2018
Studies in European Cinema
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association
Quaderni d'italianistica, 2018
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2021
grammar, specifically the increased use of the form stare + gerund at the expense of andare and v... more grammar, specifically the increased use of the form stare + gerund at the expense of andare and venire + gerund. Finally, Laura Pinnavaia reverts the point of view and studies instead the influence of Italian borrowings in British and American English, through data from two important dictionaries, the Oxford and the Merriam-Webster. These fifteen essays, sixteen if we count the Introduction with its conceptual framing of key-terms such as ‘mapping’ (a desire to define and categorize) and ‘cultural change’ in the ‘long American century’, are all well-written, compact treatments of original topics. The idea of a shifting Italian cultural identity finds an interested reader in me, as I organize each year the international Symposium ‘Italy in Transit’ at Florida Atlantic University (since 2017) looking for similar conceptual fluidities. Such a kaleidoscope of brilliant scholarship is a feast for anyone interested in the fertile processes of contamination. Not only has the exploration of...
The American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) was inaugurated at the 1923 MLA Convention... more The American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) was inaugurated at the 1923 MLA Convention hosted at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From that early moment, the organization began to expand rapidly and today the AATI is one of the largest organizations of Italian Studies internationally. This brief contribution will highlight some of the most noteworthy moments of evolution for both Italica, the official journal of the AATI, and the organization as a whole. Included are lists of past officers and noteworthy events in our history.
Amara Lakhous, scrittore italoalgerino, è autore di sei libri scritti in italiano. È considerato ... more Amara Lakhous, scrittore italoalgerino, è autore di sei libri scritti in italiano. È considerato uno scrittore di migrazione, sebbene l’etichetta gli stia un po’ stretta. In questa intervista racconta la sua esperienza in Italia, come migrante, prima a Roma e poi a Torino. Racconta il suo modo di scrivere, l’importanza che attribuisce al linguaggio e la sua idea di ri-scrittura. L’intervista si conclude con alcune considerazioni sul romanzo e sul giallo, e con un paragone tra la sua produzione e quella del giallo italiano tradizionale: Sciascia, Camilleri, e Gadda.
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 2018
A Journey through Knowledge: A Festschrift in Memory of Paul A. Colilli (1952-2018), 2020
This paper aims to explore the importance of approaching a text cross-theoretically, applying not... more This paper aims to explore the importance of approaching a text cross-theoretically, applying not solely one critical model but at least two, to offer a well-rounded and fair reading of a text. The author analyzes the first awakening novel in the Italian canon, Una donna/A Woman (1901/1906), by Sibilla Aleramo. The author argues that although the text has been interpreted through an autobiographical and feminist lens, it has not yet become appreciated enough because it has been examined only in these two realms. Rather, the author applies an intersectional Marxist and feminist approach, underscoring its importance to the Italian canon by simultaneously considering the work within an International feminist context.
Theorizing the Italian Diaspora, 2018
Italian Americans On Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future, 2020
Theorizing the Italian Diaspora, 2018
with Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017 Table of Contents Introduction: Pasolini Studies – Forty Y... more with Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017
Table of Contents
Introduction: Pasolini Studies – Forty Years in the Making
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Part One: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Verse
Pasolini’s Poetry: The Language of the Mother
Daniela Bini
Jesus Narcissus: Pasolini’s Self-Representation as Scapegoat and Martyr in His Friulian Verse.50
William Van Watson
Poetic Gazing: The “Word-Eye” in the Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Flaviano Pisanelli
Part Two: Pasolini and the Stage
Pasolini’s Orestiade, the Irrational and Greek Tragedy
Francesca D’Alessandro Behr
Dreams as Gendered Place: Feminist (Re)Awakenings in Pasolini’s Caldéron
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Part Three: Pasolini through the Lens
“Cinema di poesia” from Theory to Practice: The Case of Edipo Re
Millicent Marcus
Violence in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Francesco Rosetti
The Bibliography of Salò. Eros, Sadism, and Avant-Garde in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Last
Work
Fabio Benincasa
Oedipus and Medea According to Pasolini
Giulia Tellini
Pasolini’s Decameron: A Case of Cinematic Re-Creation
Fulvio Orsitto
Pictorial Allusion as a Distancing Technique from the Chaucerian Hypotext in The Canterbury Tales
Ilaria Lanzarini
Part Four: Pasolini and Italian Culture - Final Thoughts
Pasolini as Prophet: from I Know to the Prophecy of Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom
Daniela Privitera
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Influence on Contemporary Italian Culture
Virginia Agostinelli
Part Five: Interviews
Interview with Omino 71
Fabio Benincasa
Interview with Dacia Maraini
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Italian American Review, 2019