Download or read book Celluloid Activist written by Michael Schiavi and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celluloid Activist is the biography of gay-rights giant Vito Russo, the man who wrote The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, commonly regarded as the foundational text of gay and lesbian film studies and one of the first to be widely read. But Russo was much more than a pioneering journalist and author. A founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and cofounder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), Russo lived at the center of the most important gay cultural turning points in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. His life as a cultural Zelig intersects a crucial period of social change, and in some ways his story becomes the story of a developing gay revolution in America. A frequent participant at “zaps” and an organizer of Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) cabarets and dances—which gave the New York gay and lesbian community its first social alternative to Mafia-owned bars—Russo made his most enduring contribution to the GAA with his marshaling of “Movie Nights,” the forerunners to his worldwide Celluloid Closet lecture tours that gave gay audiences their first community forum for the dissection of gay imagery in mainstream film. Biographer Michael Schiavi unravels Vito Russo’s fascinating life story, from his childhood in East Harlem to his own heartbreaking experiences with HIV/AIDS. Drawing on archival materials, unpublished letters and journals, and more than two hundred interviews, including conversations with a range of Russo’s friends and family from brother Charlie Russo to comedian Lily Tomlin to pioneering activist and playwright Larry Kramer, Celluloid Activistprovides an unprecedented portrait of a man who defined gay-rights and AIDS activism. “Schiavi tells a compelling story in this biography—from his re-creation of life on the streets of East Harlem and in Greenwich Village of the 1960s and 1970s to the way he conveys Russo’s excitement about his film research and popular education to his account of the AIDS years in New York City.”—John D’Emilio, Italian American Review “In [Schiavi’s] hands Russo’s life is both fascinating in its own right and a window into a larger milieu of activism during two critical decades.”—Italian American Review Best Special Interest Books, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers Finalist, Gay Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, Over the Rainbow Selection, American Library Association

Download or read book Life According to Vito written by Vito DeLuca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of random insights in the form of poetry given to me over a period of 2 months. I say "given to me" because they came out of nowhere during a period of fasting and meditation and, when I later read what I wrote, I knew these words could not have come from me. The subtitle says "...Random acts of wisdom from a very unlikely poet" because most people who know me would never imagine I would write anything like this--much less in the form of poetry.

Download or read book Hero Unaware written by Vito DeLuca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious journey through the meaning of life, with an ending you will not expect. In his early forties, the author, Vito DeLuca, set out to improve his physical and mental health through a regimen of fasting and meditation. To his surprise he discovered a passageway into the mind where the mysteries of life are revealed in the stillness of the soul. Hero Unaware is his attempt to reveal the essence of that experience through the fictional life story of a common man with a very uncommon touch.

Download or read book The Celluloid Closet written by Vito Russo and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "an impressive study" and written with incisive wit and searing perception--the definitive, highly acclaimed landmark work on the portrayal of homosexuality in film.

Download or read book Understanding Screenwriting written by Tom Stempel and published by Bloomsbury Continuum. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Download or read book Vito S Journey Ii written by Vito A. Lepore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Vito A. Lepore, the years between 1950 and 1959 were the most important of his life. Decisions were made that affected the coming years, and his character became defined. In Vitos Journey II, he picks up where part one of his memoir, Vitos Journey, leaves off but with a different focus. The first book introduced family members and told stories of a boys transition from Italy to America. Vitos Journey II begins with his first step out into an adult world and journeys through the stages that follow. Told in a series of entertaining vignettes, the stories include: his foray into baseball, the night Nunzio was kidnapped, a taste of the Italian personality, life in the military, a night in jail, and his first full-time adult job. There is also a climactic court sequence. In Vitos Journey II, Lepore communicates the lessons he learned throughout his life. Whether its boyhood or adulthood, life is a never-ending series of crossroads, some by accident and some by design. Your life can change on any given day. It then follows that there is no such thing as a last chance, and that failure is part of the learning process.

Download or read book Vito S Journey written by Vito A. Lepore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Vito on his life's journey, a very bumpy ride, as he transitions from an ancient small town in Southern Italy to America, as seen through his eyes. The early years, the coming to America just befor WWII, the first traffic light at age nine, living in the Bronx, school and sports, the first kiss; Experiences that are sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes puzzling, but always entertaining. The separate chapter on the favorite family stories is particularly funny, and you'll love Mikey and uncle Larry. It has elements of an Italian version of Alex Haley's "Roots", together with experiences that Dennis the Menace might have, if he ever decides to grow older, It is intended to also stimulate the reader's interest in their own family history.

Download or read book Coffee for Consciousness written by Vito Mucci and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Live in the Now.” “Don’t worry, be happy.” “Follow your bliss.” These catch-phrase imperatives confront us on a daily basis, but so few of us seem to know how to do any of those things. If you’ve repeatedly tried and failed to manifest your better self or a more resonant life, you might be saying, “You know, it’s not that easy.” Coffee for Consciousness 101 is the instruction book you’ve been waiting for—because you’re right; it’s not easy. Finding yourself takes work, and sharing yourself with the world in love takes even more work…but the rewards are amazing. Our longstanding unhelpful definition of risk and reward is just one of the concepts that author Vito Mucci deconstructs with compassion, humor, and a deep understanding of the ways in which our beliefs about ourselves and the world get in the way of achieving conscious presence in the world, and consciously evolving relationships with ourselves and others. Our beliefs and ideas are the lenses through which we look at the world; this book gives you the idea of Perspectives, a new set of lenses that change what you see, and consequently, who you can be. Rooted in the author’s decades of experience in managing his PTSD and addictions through careful cultivation and alteration of consciousness, Coffee for Consciousness 101 is a fascinating, joyful, and deeply practical exploration of how to read the road map to positive change and greater presence.

Download or read book Business or Blood written by Peter Edwards and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade. Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. From the events leading to his imprisonment to his shocking death in December 2013, Business or Blood is the final chapter of Vito's story.

Download or read book Selling to VITO the Very Important Top Officer written by Anthony Parinello and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a sales book that gives you one-on-one, personal help to catapult your sales career and your personal income to a level that will surprise you and shock your sales manager! You'll stop: wasting your precious selling time with 'non-decision' makers getting any rejection whatsoever from gatekeepers working your keester off for itsy, bitsy sales losing sales that you thought you were going to win not making your sales quota You'll start: making sales that are up to 65 percent bigger cutting your sales cycle in half getting as much as 120 percent more add-on business from your existing customers getting VITO to VITO referrals worth pure gold making the income that you really deserve

Download or read book Vito s Journey II written by Vito A. Lepore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For author Vito A. Lepore, the years between 1950 and 1959 were the most important of his life. Decisions were made that affected the coming years, and his character became defined. In Vito's Journey II, he picks up where part one of his memoir, Vito's Journey, leaves off but with a different focus. The first book introduced family members and told stories of a boy's transition from Italy to America. Vito's Journey II begins with his first step out into an adult world and journeys through the stages that follow. Told in a series of entertaining vignettes, the stories include: his foray into baseball, the night Nunzio was kidnapped, a taste of the Italian personality, life in the military, a night in jail, and his first full-time adult job. There is also a climactic court sequence. In Vito's Journey II, Lepore communicates the lessons he learned throughout his life. Whether it's boyhood or adulthood, life is a never-ending series of crossroads, some by accident and some by design. Your life can change on any given day. It then follows that there is no such thing as a last chance, and that failure is part of the learning process.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 2127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature in the field.

Download or read book Seeing Things written by Gerry Eugene and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Things is collection of lyrical narratives that focus on joy, grief, courage, fear, love. The twenty-three visions in this collection wrestle with the universal verities of our lives. Each chapter of the volume is a stand-alone vision, yet the chapters work together to create a single voice, building and spotlighting the strength we all must find as we move through our lives. The book focuses on the drawing-in of family, friends, and nature in those moments that shape us in the crucible.

Download or read book The Nature Cure Cook Book and A B C of Natural Dietetics written by Anna Lindlahr and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vito Loves Geraldine written by Janice Eidus and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these eighteen stories Janice Eidus, with comic and tender irony, casts a sharp eye upon contemporary myths of romance, rebellion, and self-discovery.

Download or read book Vito s Tale written by Joe Novara and published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vito’s Tale is a piece of creative non-fiction about my grandfather who came to this country from Sicily ahead of his wife and children, sent my father to college, worked heavy construction labor all the while longing to return to the ‘home’ he left behind. Finally, as a widower, he did go back, married again and welcomed the grandson who came full cycle to live with him for a summer.

Download or read book Vito Volterra written by Angelo Guerraggio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was one of the most famous representatives of Italian science in his day. Angelo Guerragio and Giovanni Paolini analyze Volterra’s most important contributions to mathematics and their applications, as well as his outstanding organizational achievements in scientific policy. Volterra was one of the founding fathers of functional analysis and the author of fundamental contributions in the field of integral equations, elasticity theory and population dynamics (Lotka-Volterra model). He delivered keynote lectures on the occasion of the International Congresses of Mathematicians held in Paris (1900), Rome (1908), Strasbourg (1920) and Bologna (1928). He became involved in the scientific development in united Italy and was appointed senator of the kingdom in 1905. One of his numerous non-mathematical activities was founding the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR). During the First World War he was active in military research. After the war he took a clear stand against fascism, which was the starting point for his exclusion. In 1926 he resigned as president of the world famous Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and was later on excluded from the academy. In 1931 he was one of the few university lecturers who denied to swear an oath of allegiance to the fascistic regime. In 1938 he suffered from the impact of the racial laws. The authors draw a comprehensive picture of Vito Volterra, both as a great mathematician and an organizer of science.