Peter J. Dellolio articles on Democracy Chronicles

Peter Delliolo is a new addition to the DC team both as a writer and political artist. You can see his artwork at Peter Delliolo Fine Art. Born in New York City in 1956, Peter went to Nazareth High School and New York University.  He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in Cinema Studies and B.F.A. in Film Production.  Among various short-subject films that he wrote and directed, he adapted James Joyce’s short story Counterparts into a screenplay, which he also directed.  The film has been shown at numerous national and international film festivals.

Peter has the versatility to write in both a popular and an academic style.  He has written pieces ranging from 250-1000 words on arts and entertainment; current events; fashion; movies; television; and food.  Currently he is working on an exhaustive critical study of the films of Alfred Hitchcock called “Hitchcock’s Cinematic World: Shocks of Perception and the Collapse of the Rational.”  Chapter excerpts from this book have appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, and North Dakota Quarterly during ’03-’04.  Other chapter excerpts are due to appear in future issues of CineAction, The Journal of Film and Video, Kinema, and Qui Parle.

He has written and published critical essays on art and film, fiction, poetry, and one-act plays.  Through the 80’s and 90’s his poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary magazines, including Antenna, Aero-Sun Times, Bogus Review, and Pen-Dec Press.  In 1983, a volume of his one-act plays was published by Dramatika Press and one of these plays appeared in the ‘97/’98 issue of Collages & Bricolages.  Through 1998, Peter was a contributing editor for NYArts Magazine, writing art and film reviews.  He also did several monographs on new artists.

Peter was also the co-publisher and Editor-in-Chief of a prestigious, award-winning art magazine published on the Internet, Artscape2000.  He has also taught poetry and art.