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Oliver Brett
Oliver Brett is a university tutor at the University of Leicester. His main research interests centre on French and Italian cinema, particularly documentary cinema and the representation of gender, sexuality and queer identities. His ongoing research and publications have focused on the phenomenology and social, political and cultural influence of the documentary format. In 2015, he published an article in the online journal gender/sexuality/italy on the performance of (dis)orientation in Pietro Marcello’s docu-fiction film La bocca del lupo (The Wolf’s Mouth) (2009). He has a forthcoming chapter on the ‘urban microcosm’ during the Belle Époque period, which he explores through Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) (1913). Since 2013, he has also been involved in projects on Italian photographer, Luigi Ghirri, and the representation of sex work in European Cinema.