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Monday, December 03, 2018

Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 7.1 is now available

Intellect is happy to announce that the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 7.1 is now available! For more information about the issue, click here >> https://bit.ly/2AKT0z

Content

Articles
  • Reframing Japanese animation’s success in the late 1970s: UFO Robo Grendizer at the origin of the first anime boom in Italy and France
  • At the margins of Rome, at the margins of the world: The Hawks and the Sparrows and Sacro GRA as peripatetic analyses of capitalist society
  • ‘I’m blind, not deaf!’: Hegemonic soundscapes and resistant hearing in Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Inferno
  • Italiani Made in China: Defining Italianness in second generation Chinese-Italians
Interviews
  • An interview with Piera Detassis: The many voices of Italian cinema
  • An interview with Anselma Dell’Olio: Marco Ferreri Dangerous But Necessary
  • From Blaxploitalian to Black- Italiano: A South African exploration of afroitalianess with Fred Kuwornu
  • The use of archival footage: ‘Retelling’ twentieth-century Italian history: An interview with Giovanna Gagliardo
Artist’s Corner
  • Johanne Affricot, culture curator, creative and artistic director, founder and creative director of GRIOT, president of LIT, Italy
Reports
  • Stardom and Performance in Postwar Italian Cinema 1945–1954, University of Turin, 17–18 May 2018
  • Report on the 2018 edition of the David di Donatello Film Awards
Film Reviews
  • Pagine nascoste, Sabrina Varani (2017)Reviewed by Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Ghetto PSA, Rossella Schillaci (2016)
Book Reviews
  • Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-Garde Film, Rossella Catanese (ed.) (2018)
  • Relazioni brutali: Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia (2017)
  • Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Marina Spunta and Jacopo Benci (eds) (2017)
  • A Companion to Italian Cinema, Cinema, Frank Burke (ed.) (2017)
  • Italy Beyond Gomorrah: Roberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption, Floriana Bernardi (2017)
  • Media Convergence and Deconvergence, Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research, Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peiland Gabriele Balbi (eds) (2017)
  • Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation, Austin Fisher (ed.) (2016)
  • Orient (to) Express: Film di viaggio, etno-grafie, teoria d’autore, Marco Dalla Gassa (2016)
  •  ‘Reading Practices in Experimental Narratives: A Comparative Perspective from Print to Digital Fiction in Modern Languages’, Emanuela Patti (ed.) (2016)