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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8.1 is now available

Intellect is happy to announce that Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 8.1 is now available!

 

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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 8.1

 

Editorial

 

Two new columns: ‘Translations’ and ‘Archival Notes’ 

Giorgio Bertellini

 

Articles

 

Fellini’s 8½: Dreams, guilt, casting and ‘the code of codes’ of the cinematographic image

Sandra Meiri and Odeya Kohen Raz

 

The ‘angelification’ of girls: Winx Club as a neo-liberal Catholic project 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Ellen Nerenberg

 

Italian transnational masculinity: Jeeg Robot, Il ragazzo invisibile and MilzaMan 

Robert A. Rushing

 

A brutal humanism for the new millennium? The legacy of Neorealism in contemporary cinema of migration 

Rachel Johnson

 

A threefold adaptation: Mario Martone’s Leopardi

Alessandra Mirra 

 

Artist’s Corner

 

Elegance in a click: Giuseppe Di Caro and his photographs 

Giuseppe Di Caro 

 

Reports 

 

Kinolab: A platform for the digital analysis of film language in narrative film and media 

Allison Cooper

 

Young people and digital communication 

Giulio Votano 

 

Conference Reports

 

10th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, ‘Navigazioni Possibili: Italies Lost and Found’, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 7–10 February 2019 

Rory McKenzie

 

Global intersections and artistic interconnections: Italian cinema and media across times and spaces: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies – second international conference, Rome, 14–15 June 2019 

Glen Bonnici 

 

Film Festival Report

 

Without red carpet: An Italian film festival and its public cultural sphere: Ten years of Bari International Film Festival (BIF&ST) 2009–19 

Angela Bianca Saponari 

 

Other

 

Film Reviews

 

- Transatlantico REX, Nave n. 296, Maurizio Sciarra (dir.) (2018) Gaetana Marrone
-Senza Rossetto, Emanuela Mazzina (archivist) and Silvana Profeta (dir.) (2018) Nicoletta Marini-Maio

- Tre in treno per l’Europa (e un pollo), Emanuela Piovano (dir.) (2019) Sarah Annunziato 
- In the Mood in Our Own Way: Two Centuries of Musical Relationships between Italy and the United States, Luca Martera (dir.) (2018) Francesco Fiumara
- Nessun dorma, Paolo Strippoli (dir.) (2018) A pelo d’acqua, Rafael Farina Issas (dir.) (2018) Così in terra, Pier Lorenzo Pisano (dir.) (2018) Il nostro sangue, Gino Palummo (dir.) (2018) L’amata, Domenico Croce (dir.) (2018) Ellen Nerenberg 

 

Book Reviews

 

- Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama, Milly Buonanno (ed.) (2017) Ellen Nerenberg

- Il cinema di Stato: Finanziamento pubblico ed economia simbolica nel cinema italiano contemporaneo, Marco Cucco and Giacomo Manzoli (eds) (2017) Paolo Russo

- The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life, Timothy C. Campbell (2017) Jonathan Mullins

- Storia cinematografica della letteratura italiana, Edoardo Ripari (2017) Stefano Bona 

- Storia sociale della televisione in Italia 1954–1969, Damiano Garofalo (2018) Milly Buonanno

- La cittadinanza come luogo di lotta: le seconde generazioni in Italia fra cinema e serialità, Leonardo De Franceschi (2018) Sole Anatrone

- Cinema italiano: Forme, identità, stili di vita, Roberto De Gaetano (2018) Silvia Carlorosi Roma e il cinema del dopoguerra: Neorealismo, melodramma, noir,

Lorenzo Marmo (2018) Alberto Lo Pinto

- Displacing Caravaggio: Art, Media, and Humanitarian Visual Culture, Francesco Zucconi (2018) Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith

- The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America, Giorgio Bertellini (2019) Piero Garofalo