John Paul Russo
Biographic Data
| ID | 289938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Paul Russo |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Russo |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSO J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8121-2691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scorsese's First Masterpiece: Mean Streets at Fifty
The literary historian Douglas Bush wrote that John Keats's sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” was his “first masterpiece” (his italics), “his one great early poem” (1966, 24, 32).1 Nothing Keats had written thus far approached it in artistic power, and it was several years before he surpassed it.There is something special about an artist's “first masterpiece,” which I am calling Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). It was not alway…
Descolonizando visualizações: A Antropologia Como Crítica Ao Universalismo No Design Da Informação
Este artigo explora a interseção entre antropologia e design da informação como um território fértil para traduzir saberes etnográficos em linguagens acessíveis além da academia. Identificamos que a instrumentalização da etnografia no design constitui simultaneamente um desafio metodológico e uma oportunidade singular para repensar práticas de visualização. Objetivamos demonstrar como princípios antropológicos fundamentais (alteridade, relativism…
Briefly Noted
Angelo Patri (1876–1965) (originally Pietralgia) was born in Piaggine in the southernmost region of the province of Salerno, came to America when he was five, and started school (and English) when he was 11. By 21, he had a BA from the City College of New York and several years later an MA from the Teachers College, Columbia University. There he studied under John Dewey who exerted a deep and lasting influence. By the time he established himself …
Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York
The subject of this biography, Lionello Arturo Lopes Perera, was born in Venice in 1871 of Jewish and Venetian background. His father, a commercial agent from Livorno, died when Perera was 11; ever after, he, the only son, felt responsible for the welfare of his five sisters. His close relatives knew that his commercial success would depend on his education, and so he was sent to one of the few business schools in Europe, the Regia Scuola Superio…
The Girls: Louise S. Dana and Lola S. Giusti, the Nation's First Women's Group Travel Agents: An Interview with Robert V. “Bob” Giusti (1930–2017), Retired Travel Agent
My name is Betty Jane Owen. I wrote a book about my mother-in-law, the late Sally Stanford, also known as Marsha Owen, and it prepared me—and I know other people, who have stories about their mothers, aunts, someone in the family that took the steps to make a living for their children—to be a businesswoman, long before businesswomen were even heard of. This began in the 1920s, all the way through World War II to the present day. The person I have…
The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy
Book Review| August 01 2021 The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy by Keith Crook. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. 247 pp. John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2021) XXXIX (2): 222–224. https://doi.org/10.5406/2327753X.39.2.36 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
Towers of Aging
Book Review| August 01 2020 Towers of Aging Towers of Aging by Joseph A. Amato. Minnetonka, MN: Crossings Press, 2020. 68 pp. John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2020) XXXVIII (2): 215–217. https://doi.org/10.5406/2327753X.38.2.38 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Paul Russo; Towers of …
Alexander Pope: Tradition and Identity
The Italian in Modernity
In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.
New Media, New Era
This article explores the impact of the new communications technologies on the generation born in the 1980s, the first to grow up under the dominance of the computer. It considers some of the parameters for discussing the close of one era and the beginning of another and draws on the writings of major civilizationist historians and futurologists, including Jacques Ellul, Samuel Huntington, and Romano Guardini
The Great Forgetting: From the Library to the Media Center
The Music of the Inferno
Belittled America
Martina Marazzi (1997) Little America: Gli Stati Uniti e gli scrittori italiani del Novecento. (Milan: Marcos y Marcos), 22,000 lire, ISBN 88–7168–181–9
Genoa and the Genoese 958–1528
American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics
Journal Article American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics. By Paul Giles. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. x, 547 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-41777-5.) Get access John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1459–1460, https://doi.org/10.2307/20806…
Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud
I. A. Richards: His Life and Work
I.A. Richards was a revolutionary literary critic and an experienced traveller, especially in Asia. John Paul Russo's comprehensive and scholarly biography draws on previously unpublished correspondence and interviews. This book should be of interest to students of literature
I. A. Richards in Retrospect
Complementarities: Uncollected Essays of I. A. Richards
A Study in Influence: The Moore-Richards Paradigm
Complementarities: Uncollected Essays
The Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism . Robert M. Adams
Complementarities: Uncollected Essays
The Roman Stamp: Frame and Facade in Some Forms of Neo-Classicism . Robert M. Adams
Complementarities: Uncollected Essays of I. A. Richards
A Study in Influence: The Moore-Richards Paradigm
I. A. Richards in Retrospect
Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud
I. A. Richards: His Life and Work
I.A. Richards was a revolutionary literary critic and an experienced traveller, especially in Asia. John Paul Russo's comprehensive and scholarly biography draws on previously unpublished correspondence and interviews. This book should be of interest to students of literature
American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics
Journal Article American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics. By Paul Giles. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. x, 547 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-521-41777-5.) Get access John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1459–1460, https://doi.org/10.2307/20806…
Genoa and the Genoese 958–1528
Belittled America
Martina Marazzi (1997) Little America: Gli Stati Uniti e gli scrittori italiani del Novecento. (Milan: Marcos y Marcos), 22,000 lire, ISBN 88–7168–181–9
The Music of the Inferno
The Great Forgetting: From the Library to the Media Center
New Media, New Era
This article explores the impact of the new communications technologies on the generation born in the 1980s, the first to grow up under the dominance of the computer. It considers some of the parameters for discussing the close of one era and the beginning of another and draws on the writings of major civilizationist historians and futurologists, including Jacques Ellul, Samuel Huntington, and Romano Guardini
The Italian in Modernity
In this study, Robert Casillo and John Paul Russo look at both Italy and Italian America to explore the paradoxical representation of Italy as the originator of modernity that has resisted many modern tendencies.
Alexander Pope: Tradition and Identity
Towers of Aging
Book Review| August 01 2020 Towers of Aging Towers of Aging by Joseph A. Amato. Minnetonka, MN: Crossings Press, 2020. 68 pp. John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2020) XXXVIII (2): 215–217. https://doi.org/10.5406/2327753X.38.2.38 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John Paul Russo; Towers of …
The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy
Book Review| August 01 2021 The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy The Imprisoned Traveler: Joseph Forsyth and Napoleon's Italy by Keith Crook. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2019. 247 pp. John Paul Russo John Paul Russo University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Italian Americana (2021) XXXIX (2): 222–224. https://doi.org/10.5406/2327753X.39.2.36 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Fac…
The Girls: Louise S. Dana and Lola S. Giusti, the Nation's First Women's Group Travel Agents: An Interview with Robert V. “Bob” Giusti (1930–2017), Retired Travel Agent
My name is Betty Jane Owen. I wrote a book about my mother-in-law, the late Sally Stanford, also known as Marsha Owen, and it prepared me—and I know other people, who have stories about their mothers, aunts, someone in the family that took the steps to make a living for their children—to be a businesswoman, long before businesswomen were even heard of. This began in the 1920s, all the way through World War II to the present day. The person I have…
Briefly Noted
Angelo Patri (1876–1965) (originally Pietralgia) was born in Piaggine in the southernmost region of the province of Salerno, came to America when he was five, and started school (and English) when he was 11. By 21, he had a BA from the City College of New York and several years later an MA from the Teachers College, Columbia University. There he studied under John Dewey who exerted a deep and lasting influence. By the time he established himself …
Lionello Perera: An Italian Banker and Patron in New York
The subject of this biography, Lionello Arturo Lopes Perera, was born in Venice in 1871 of Jewish and Venetian background. His father, a commercial agent from Livorno, died when Perera was 11; ever after, he, the only son, felt responsible for the welfare of his five sisters. His close relatives knew that his commercial success would depend on his education, and so he was sent to one of the few business schools in Europe, the Regia Scuola Superio…
Scorsese's First Masterpiece: Mean Streets at Fifty
The literary historian Douglas Bush wrote that John Keats's sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” was his “first masterpiece” (his italics), “his one great early poem” (1966, 24, 32).1 Nothing Keats had written thus far approached it in artistic power, and it was several years before he surpassed it.There is something special about an artist's “first masterpiece,” which I am calling Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). It was not alway…
Descolonizando visualizações: A Antropologia Como Crítica Ao Universalismo No Design Da Informação
Este artigo explora a interseção entre antropologia e design da informação como um território fértil para traduzir saberes etnográficos em linguagens acessíveis além da academia. Identificamos que a instrumentalização da etnografia no design constitui simultaneamente um desafio metodológico e uma oportunidade singular para repensar práticas de visualização. Objetivamos demonstrar como princípios antropológicos fundamentais (alteridade, relativism…
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