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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.

On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade

by Peter J. Dellolio - May 11, 2022

Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Religion and Democracy, Supreme Court

Group Think In The Stop The Steal Movement

by Peter J. Dellolio - June 15, 2021

Stop The Steal Movement

I have been thinking about how statistics show that there are 14 million Americans who subscribe to the insane beliefs of the Q-Anon movement.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: George Orwell

Trump, the Scorpion and the Frog

by Peter J. Dellolio - January 29, 2020

Trump, the Scorpion and the Frog

A scorpion wanted to get across the river. He asked a frog, “Will you please give me a ride on your back?” The frog replied, “How can I do that? Your sting is fatal!”

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Republicans

My New Poetry Collection: A Box of Crazy Toys

by Peter J. Dellolio - March 17, 2018

A Box of Crazy Toys

Is it possible that anything you can conceive, with any combination of words, can, in the fullness of time, manifest itself materially? Some such thought will be prompted by the reading of any of the 100 liquid landscapes in my surreal collection.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: New York City and State Elections, Political Artwork

Painting Series for Anniversary of JFK Assassination

by Peter J. Dellolio - October 20, 2014

Grassy Knoll JFK Anniversary of JFK Assassination

My most ambitious series to date is this 50 work series devoted to 2013’s 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. I tried to combine familiar media imagery from the weekend of November 22nd 1963 with abstractions of form, to make original statements about this iconic socio-cultural-political event.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Election History, Political Artwork

Planet Mars: Our Vanished Alter Ego?

by Peter J. Dellolio - October 10, 2014

Mars A Vanished Alter Ego

Perhaps, if Mars had the same beginnings that history has revealed to us on Earth, and that, for a time, it may have been magnificent, that if somehow it lost its way and destroyed itself, hopefully we can take a different path.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Election History, Journalism and Free Speech, Political Artwork, Voting Technology

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