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David Forgacs
David Forgacs holds the Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His publications include Italy’s Margins: Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War (with Stephen Gundle, Indiana University Press, 2007), Italian Culture in the Industrial Era (Manchester University Press, 1990) and The Antonio Gramsci Reader (ed., 2nd ed., New York University Press, 2000). His work on cinema includes a book on Roberto Rossellini’s Roma città aperta and a co-edited book on Rossellini (both BFI Publishing, 2000), essays on Michelangelo Antonioni (2000, 2009, 2011) and Gillo Pontecorvo (2007) and full-length audio commentaries for the DVD and Blu-ray discs of Ossessione (with Lesley Caldwell), Il Gattopardo (with Rossana Capitano), Il deserto rosso and Il conformista.