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Acclaimed Italo-Australian screenwriter and director Jan Sardi joins the Choc-tops and Cassata team to reflect on how Melbourne’s Italian social and cultural landscape has shaped his work in cinema.
In this series, Choc-tops and Cassata, part of The Secret Life of Language, hosts Elisabetta Ferrari (Italian Studies Program) and Mark Nicholls (Screen and Cultural Studies) are joined by comedian, writer and producer Santo Cilauro to dig into the ways Italian language films shaped the cultural life of Melbourne.
Starting with his grandparents’ migration from the island of Elba and experiences on the Queensland canefields, Jan takes us to glamorous floorshows and Hollywood filmstars at Mario’s restaurant in Melbourne, where his father worked. He revisits his childhood obsession with Westerns screened at the Adelphi (now ...
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LanguageUniversity of Melbournehistoryidentitycultural identityschool of languages and linguisticsAustraliaElisabetta FerrariMark NichollsChoc-topsChoc TopsChoc-tops and CassataCassataMelbourne CinemaItalian MigrationItalian Migration to Melbourne Italian cinemaItalian moviesGus BergerJan SardiCarlo ZeccolaGiovanni ZeccolaPalace CinemasWorking DogWorking Dog ProductionsAlice GarnerMetropolitan CinemaSanto CilauroSBSL'AlbaCarltonShineMoving OutAdelphi