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Eleonora Fornasari
Eleonora Fornasari holds an MA in international screenwriting and production and a Ph.D. from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, Italy. In her research, she has studied adaptations from children’s literature to TV series, focusing on the portrayal of young heroines in a number of key works, to investigate why they continue to fascinate generations of children in many different cultures, and why they still speak emotionally to young audiences. She works as a scriptwriter both for animated TV series in Italy and the United Kingdom (Igam Ogam, Julio Bunny, YoYo), and for live-action programmes with RAI, the Italian national broadcaster (Social King 2.0, La TV Ribelle, La Posta di Yoyo). She is also co-author of the annual cinema publication Scegliere un film (‘To choose a movie’, San Paolo, Milan), and author of an essay on the difficulties and resources of television communication aimed at a tween audience in F. Mazzucchelli (2013), La Preadolescenza (‘Preadolescence’), Milan: Franco Angeli. Currently she teaches digital journalism and digital media in Italy, and the female character in Italian literature and culture, within the UCSC International Curriculum.