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Preface, Split Tomato Sauce by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, writer, singer/songwriter, activist, and editor of Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation
Introduction by Sole Anatrone and Julia Heim
Coming Out and Leaving Home: Cultural Friction in the Italian American Kitchen by Eilis Kierans, PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Rutgers University, USA
Passion and Pulp: Impossible Families by Clarissa Cl, PhD, Professor and Chair, and Director of the Italian Studies Program, in the Department of European Studies at San Diego State University, USA
Queer Categorical Miscegenation: Sexuality, Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Victor Bumbalos Niagara Falls and Questa by John Champagne, PhD, Professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA
I would like to be a spoiled rich white girl by Nick Boston, PhD, associate professor of media sociology at Lehman College, USA
Lifestyles of the Gay and Mobster by Julia Heim, PhD, Lecturer in Italian at University of Pennsylvania, USA
Queering the Guido or Guidoing the Queer? Performing Gender and Identity on Comedy Television by Carmelo Galati, PhD, Associate Professor of Instruction and Co-Director of the Italian Studies Program at Temple University, USA
Time to come out, girl!: Queering Italian American Sexuality on TV Lands Younger by Aria Cabot, PhD, Director of the World Languages and Literatures Teaching and Technology Center at Southern Methodist University, USA
Spotlights: These spotlights are short, autobiographical pieces that appear throughout the book, interspersed between the chapters, serving as both a break from the more scholarly work, and a look at what it means to live as a queer Italian American media-maker. The authorswho are all involved in media in a variety of waysreflect on how their identities as Italian Americans, and as LGBTQIA+ identified peoples influence each other and their work. Contributors:
Rita Houston & Laura Fedele (radio personality and producer)
Annie Lanzilotto (author, playwright)
Dana Piccoli (entertainment writer and pop culture critic)
Katelynn Cusanelli (reality TV star)
Norman Korpi (reality TV star)
Mitch del Monico (director)
Julio Gambuto (director and author).
Introduction by Sole Anatrone and Julia Heim
Coming Out and Leaving Home: Cultural Friction in the Italian American Kitchen by Eilis Kierans, PhD candidate in Italian Studies at Rutgers University, USA
Passion and Pulp: Impossible Families by Clarissa Cl, PhD, Professor and Chair, and Director of the Italian Studies Program, in the Department of European Studies at San Diego State University, USA
Queer Categorical Miscegenation: Sexuality, Race, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Victor Bumbalos Niagara Falls and Questa by John Champagne, PhD, Professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA
I would like to be a spoiled rich white girl by Nick Boston, PhD, associate professor of media sociology at Lehman College, USA
Lifestyles of the Gay and Mobster by Julia Heim, PhD, Lecturer in Italian at University of Pennsylvania, USA
Queering the Guido or Guidoing the Queer? Performing Gender and Identity on Comedy Television by Carmelo Galati, PhD, Associate Professor of Instruction and Co-Director of the Italian Studies Program at Temple University, USA
Time to come out, girl!: Queering Italian American Sexuality on TV Lands Younger by Aria Cabot, PhD, Director of the World Languages and Literatures Teaching and Technology Center at Southern Methodist University, USA
Spotlights: These spotlights are short, autobiographical pieces that appear throughout the book, interspersed between the chapters, serving as both a break from the more scholarly work, and a look at what it means to live as a queer Italian American media-maker. The authorswho are all involved in media in a variety of waysreflect on how their identities as Italian Americans, and as LGBTQIA+ identified peoples influence each other and their work. Contributors:
Rita Houston & Laura Fedele (radio personality and producer)
Annie Lanzilotto (author, playwright)
Dana Piccoli (entertainment writer and pop culture critic)
Katelynn Cusanelli (reality TV star)
Norman Korpi (reality TV star)
Mitch del Monico (director)
Julio Gambuto (director and author).