Books by Ellen Nerenberg
This article examines and contextualizes the socio-economic model and values system from which th... more This article examines and contextualizes the socio-economic model and values system from which the transmedial, transnational text that we call the 'Winx Project' derives and in which it is produced. The Winx Project centres on an animated television series for girls and tweens, Winx Club, produced in Italy and distributed in 150 countries worldwide, but includes spin-off television formats, films, live and interactive entertainments, an amusement park and merchandising and fashion to compose a multifaceted, multiple 'text'. This plural text is employed to measure the functionality of the Winx Club within a global and transnationalized discourse of neo-liberal economics on the one hand and, on the other, a local context that reaches deep into the regional character of social Catholicism to purvey on a global scale its ethics and values system.
Looking at media coverage of three earlier, very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy exp... more Looking at media coverage of three earlier, very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how the reflect developments in Italian civil society over a period reaching from 1989-2011. This is Chapter 7, and is part of the book's section devoted to "Filicide" and the case against Annamaria Franzoni for the bludgeoning death of her three-year-old son, Samuele. This particular chapter explores spectacular mourning, with readings of a variety of documents and, very attentively, Sandro Veronesi's Caos Calmo and Nanni Moretti's La stanza del figlio.
Papers by Ellen Nerenberg
The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2015
This review draws into proximity the thesis films made by the students in the directing program a... more This review draws into proximity the thesis films made by the students in the directing program at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema (CSC) and students in DAMS at the University of Bologna.
Explores the semiosis of crime and media studies assemblage in the Erika and Omar homicide case i... more Explores the semiosis of crime and media studies assemblage in the Erika and Omar homicide case in Novi Ligure. This was later developed further and transformed in my Murder Made in Italy: Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture available also here (firewalled): https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gh662.11
The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2017
Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
Italian Culture
The essays gathered in this special issue pay tribute to Rebecca West and her four decades-long c... more The essays gathered in this special issue pay tribute to Rebecca West and her four decades-long career in Italian Studies. Two award-winning studies plot prime coordinates in our esteemed colleague's oeuvre and describe the interdisciplinary essays and reflections collected here in her honor.
New Reflections on Primo Levi, 2011
Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy, 2007
The seven double homicides that took place in the Florentine hinterland between 1975 and 1985 off... more The seven double homicides that took place in the Florentine hinterland between 1975 and 1985 offer a narrative of conspiracy that plumbs public faith in organs of jurisprudence and is characterized by mystery and jingoism. As Manlio Cancogni says in the introduction to the summary of the case written by Francesco Ferri (who heard the case in Florence’s Court of Appeals and absolved Pacciani—a judicial sentence later quashed), “Like most Italians, what I know about the Pacciani case is based on hearsay.”1 Employing methods developed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Italian law officials concluded the murders were serial in nature and created an “identikit” to be used to build a list of suspects. When Pietro Pacciani emerged as the prime suspect, organs of the press were quick to call him il mostro di Firenze (the “Monster of Florence”), a moniker used by the media to refer to the previously unidentified murderer. Pacciani was tried in 1994, found guilty, and sentenced. On appeal, that sentence was vacated, and after another investigation, Pacciani was accused once more; he was named co-conspirator to commit murder with several others and was to have stood trial in 1998. He died awaiting his second trial.
... Re-visioning Terrorism. Presentation Title. Terrorism Then and Now, Terrorism Then as Now: Ma... more ... Re-visioning Terrorism. Presentation Title. Terrorism Then and Now, Terrorism Then as Now: Marco Baliani's Corpo di stato. Presenter Information. Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University. Location. Stewart Center 318. Session Number. ...
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The editorial board is pleased to issue a call for submissions for Number 7 2020 of gender/sexuality/italy (g/s/i), a peer-reviewed, digital open-access journal on gender studies in Italian culture (http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com).
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g/s/i—gender/sexuality/italy 7 (2020) invites essays studying and interventions performing collaborations as they intersect and cross research, pedagogical, and creative practices, gender and sexuality studies, and Italian Studies. Some areas that might be considered:
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Articles must be either in English or Italian, no longer than 10,000 words with spaces (including bibliography and footnotes), must conform to the standards of The Chicago Manual of Style, and must be accompanied by an abstract (500 words), a brief bio (200 parole) and 5 keywords. Please submit your article through the journal website using the Submit an Article page: http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/article-submissions/submit-article-to-gsi/.
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