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Italian films are typically financed through the same formula and it appears that at this stage of the production process there is little room for alternative possibilities. Starting from this prelimi- nary consideration, the article aims... more
This article will analyse the distribution and promotion strategies of Matteo Garrone's Dogman (2018) in the United States. It will reconstruct the singularity of this case study in a comparative perspective, considering both the... more
Poética visual en la obra de Paolo Sorrentino. La espiritualidad como eje y matriz de la fascinación estético-discursiva. Resumen: Estudio de la espiritualidad y poética visual reflejada en la obra de Paolo Sorrentino como epicentro del... more
Many studies centred on Godard do not relate his films and ideas to other film practice. This study of essay film, taking as its central object Godard's Histoire(s), uses cognitive mapping to relate his work to Resnais, Marker, Debord,... more
Paper presented at the roundtable: “Nonhuman and more-than-human media”, AAIS & CSIS Conference, Columbus, Ohio (2017).
An historical survey of occurences for blackface in Italian performative arts, with reference to film and TV shows. This intervention is to be taken as a response to a return of blackface in two recent Italian comedies and in a TV live... more
This interview from 1982 now contains all the pages. The original posting was missing 2-3 pages of text.
Marcho Bellocchio career overview, with an interview about his time at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he wrote his first feature, Fists in the Pocket (1965), and a thesis on Bresson and Antonioni.
Cinema e Risorgimento: visioni e re-visioni, a cura di Fulvio Orsitto, pone lo sguardo sul rapporto tra cinema e Risorgimento analizzando in 19 capitoli, dall’epoca del muto fino ai giorni nostri, la visione risorgimentale in chiave... more
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study... more
Η παρούσα ανακοίνωση παρουσίαστηκε στο 4ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο "Δημιουργική Γραφή", το οποίο διοργανώθηκε από το Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Μακεδονίας και πραγματοποιήθηκε στη Φλώρινα, Σεπτεμβρίου 2019. Σημειώνεται ότι η ανακοίνωση, οπως όλες οι... more
Open to: Graduate and Post Graduate Students with a background in Media Studies, Italian Studies, Film Studies, American Studies, Cultural Production, and similar degrees. // The Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, in... more
The artistic career of Febo Mari (1881-1939) is a time-sample symptomatic of deep ties established between the growing film publishing and the Italian theatrical production system in the 1910s. In this article I will focus on three... more
in Alan Wright, Film on the Faultline (Bristol-Chicago: Intellect/The University of Chicago Press, 2015), 198-214. REPRINT: originally published in "Italian Culture," 30: 1 (March 2012): 38-50.
SIS Themed Conference, University of Sussex, 5-6 April 2018
L’article se propose d’étudier la représentation cinématographique du dialecte sicilien dans le film Respiro (2002) d’Emanuele Crialese et d’interroger les raisons qui ont poussé le cinéaste à ce choix linguistique : l’analyse visera à... more
Giorgio Pellegrini (Alessio Boni), l'ex-terrorista comunista, torna in Italia dopo quindici anni di esilio in una selva del Cento-America.
This essay aims at tracing the models of representation of the Germans in Italian post-war cinema. Taking into consideration dozens of films produced in Italy between ’40s and ’50s dealing with the memory of Fascism, Second World War,... more
In this chapter Sandra Waters discusses the staging and the nature of a number of setpiece sequences that, in spite of lavish sets, extravagant costumes, and vibrant cinematography and colors, seem to exist as disjointed from the... more
This panel seeks to highlight and contribute to the study of often-ignored cinematic works and filmmakers in Italy, as well as to emphasize the rare or lesser-known and understudied filmic efforts of established, successful Italian... more
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siècle literature and early cinema. Catherine Ramsey-Portolano begins her study... more
in: taz - Die Tageszeitung, 22.8.2019
This is one of review has been published in Iranian journal recently on my work related to Italian Cinema History book.
This year’s Lavazza Italian Film Festival (Melbourne 14 September - 8 October, 2017) offered a selection of fine films, some of which were recently released. As a successful finale to the festival, Palace Cinema in Brighton Bay screened... more
DVD booklet essay for the English release of the film.