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Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 11.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘The Centennial of Tonino Guerra, 1920–2020’

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Aims & Scope

Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies is a fully peer-reviewed, English-language journal, which explores Italian cinema and media as sites of crossing, allowing critical discussion of the work of filmmakers, artists in the film industry and media professionals. The journal intends to revive a critical discussion on the auteurs, celebrate new directors and accented cinema and examine Italy as a geo-cultural locus for contemporary debate on translocal cinema.

Issue 11.1

Dedication

To Marguerite ‘Margie’ Waller (1948–2020)

FRANK BURKE, AMY HOUGHDUGDALE AND MARITA GUBAREVA

Editorial

FRANK BURKE

Interview

Bisognerebbe fare qualcosa: Interview with Lora Guerra

MARITA GUBAREVA

Articles

From vernacular art to the auteur moment: Tonino Guerra as a poet, writer and scriptwriter in the 1940s and 1950s

LIVIO LEPRATTO

Antonioni’s Anthropocene and Guerra’s enchanting gardens

ELENA PAST

Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert

MARIANNA NESPOLI

Interview

Perspectives on Tonino Guerra: Interviews with Rebecca West, Federico Pacchioni, Giame Alonge and Goffredo Fofi

FRANK BURKE AND AMY HOUGHDUGDALE

Film Treatment

‘Forbidden Dance’: A film treatment by Tonino Guerra

TRANSLATED BY AMY HOUGHDUGDALE

Reflections on ‘Danza proibita’

AMY HOUGH-DUGDALE

Letter

Letter to Tonino

REBECCA WEST

Testimonials

TRANSLATED BY FRANK BURKE AND MARITA GUBAREVA

Additional Illustrations

Articles

The crane, the cat and the housefly: Animals and meaning-making in Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy

THOMAS AIELLO

A different spirituality: On Lazzaro’s symbolic potency in Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro

ROBERTO INTERDONATO

Interviews

Italian cinema online: A conversation with Gianluca Guzzo of MYmovies.it

ANTONIO FALDUTO, GLEN BONNICI, JIM CARTER AND FLAVIA LAVIOSA

Where art and cinema converge: An interview with Massimiliano Siccardi

JULIETTE BELLACOSA

The non-professional child actor in neorealism: Interview with Alfonso Bovino

CATHERINE O’RAWE, MATTIA BOCCUTI AND VALENTINA GERI

Book Reviews

Ugo Casiraghi e Glauco Viazzi: Il cervello di Carné: Letterario 1941–1943, Simone Dotto and Andrea Mariani (eds) (2021)

GIORGIO BERTELLINI

Italian Industrial Literature and Film: Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor, Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo (eds) (2021)

MONICA JANSEN

Un ettaro di cielo e 39 di terreno: Storia d’impresa di Franco Cristaldi, Barbara Corsi (2021)

PAOLO NOTO

Romarcord: Flânerie, spectacle et mémoire dans la Rome de FedericoFellini, Marina Vargau  (2021)

RÉMI LANZONI

Dante e il cinema: I film ispirati alla vita e alle opere dell’autore della ‘Divina Commedia’, Paolo Speranza and Enrico Giacovelli (eds) (2021)

JOHN P. WELLE

L’immagine del burattino: Percorsi fra teatro, letteratura e cinema, Federico Pacchioni (2020)

IRENE LOTTINI

Italy through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946–1979), Gianluca Fantoni (2021)

JIM CARTER