This week we travel to 1950s Italy with The Talented Mr. Ripley! Join us for a discussion of Italian jazz, the male gaze, passports, gay men in 1950s Italy, Madonna festivals, and more!

Sources:

Film Background:

IMDB, Talented Mr Ripley: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Interview with Matt Damon, Urban Cinephile, available at https://www.urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=3320&s=Interviews

Roger Ebert's Revew of The Talented Mr Ripley: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-talented-mr-ripley-1999

Philadelphia Inquirer on Goop: https://www.inquirer.com/health/goop-gwyneth-paltrow-pseudoscience-netflix-jade-egg-20200204.html

Mardonna Festivals:

Marialus Cultus, available at http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html

University of Dayton, List of Mary Shrines in Italy: https://udayton.edu/imri/mary/s/shrines-in-italy.php

Marianism in Campania: http://www.naplesldm.com/sevenmad.php

Festival of the Madonna di Pietraquaria Official Website: http://www.madonnadipietraquaria.org/festa-della-madonna/

Augusto Ferraiulo, "Boston's North End: Negotiating Identity in an Italian-American Neighborhood," Western Folklore 65, 3 (2006)

Nancy Frey Breuner, "The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Southern Italy and Spain," Ethos 20, 1 (1992)

Robert A. Ventresca, "The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society, and the Cold War in Italy," Journal of Social History 37, 2 (2003)

Passports: Smithsonian Magazine, "How the Passport Became an Improbable Symbol of American Identity," available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-passport-became-improbable-symbol-american-identity-180962064/

Jessica Puckett, "How US Passports Evolved from Status Symbol to Essential Travel Document," Conde Nast Traveler, available at https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-the-us-passport-evolved-from-status-symbol-to-essential-travel-document

Christine Quinan, "Gender (in)securities: Surveillance and Transgender Bodies in a Post-9/11 Age of Neoliberalism," in Security/Mobility: Politics of Movement, ed Mattias Leese and Step Wittendorp. Manchester University Press

Images of 1950s American passports: https://www.passport-collector.com/the-passport-of-a-young-african-american-issued-in-germany/

Daniel A. Farber, "National Security, the Right to Travel, and the Court," Supreme Court Review (1981)

Homosexuality in Italy:

Adamczyk, Amy. "The Relatively Liberal Views of People from Catholic-Majority Countries: An Examination of Spain, Italy, and Brazil." In Cross-National Public Opinion about Homosexuality: Examining Attitudes across the Globe, 127-48.

Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017. Accessed September 16, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1jd947w.9.

Aldrich, Robert. "Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview." Urban Studies 41, no. 9 (2004): 1719-737. Accessed September 17, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43201476.

Friedlander, Ari. "Introduction: Desiring History and Historicizing Desire." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 16, no. 2 (2016): 1-20. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/jearlmodcultstud.16.2.1.

Mosse, George L., and Mary Louise Roberts. "Fascism and Sexuality." In Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe, 158-83. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv15pjz4h.13.

Ponzanesi, Sandra. "Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities." In What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms, edited by Rosello Mireille and Dasgupta Sudeep, 81-90. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt13x0783.8.

Ross, Charlotte, Heim, Julia, and Smythe, SA. "Queer Italian Studies: Critical Reflections from the Field." Italian Studies: Cultural Studies 74, no. 4 (2019): 397-412.

Dupont, Wannes. "The Two-Faced Fifties: Homosexuality and Penal Policy in the International Forensic Community, 1945–1965." Journal of the History of Sexuality 28, no. 3 (2019): 357-395. muse.jhu.edu/article/734235.

Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/who-really-killed-pier-paolo-pasolini-venice-film-festival-biennale-abel-ferrara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Vu%C3%B2_F%C3%A0_L%27Americano

SCUDERI, ANTONIO. "Okay Napulitan!: Social Change and Cultural Identity in the Songs of Renato Carosone." Italica 87, no. 4 (2010): 619-36. Accessed September 17, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23070816.

Renato Carosone film performance https://youtu.be/BqlJwMFtMCs w/translated lyrics https://youtu.be/yL_amiWnqFQ (and some typos)

WYNN, NEIL A. "“Why I Sing the Blues”: AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE TRANSATLANTIC WORLD." In Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe, edited by Wynn Neil A., by Bakriges Christopher G., et al, 3-22. JACKSON: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt2tvbm7.4.

Adinolfi, Francesco. "Lounge Italia." In Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation, edited by Pinkus Karen and Vivrette Jason, 226-34. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2008. Accessed September 17, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv11smnxp.19.

Another translation of the lyrics: https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-renato-carosone-tu-vuo-fa-lamericano-english-translation-lyrics