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Dear Colleagues,
The 2012 edition of the annual FILM ISSUE of The Italianist is now available.
CONTENTS
Editorial - Alan O’Leary
ARTICLES
Who wants to be a TV showgirl? Auditions, talent and taste in contemporary popular Italian cinema - Danielle Hipkins
Industry, Co-production and Agency: Gina Lollobrigida in documents - Pauline Small
Carlo Lizzani’s Il gobbo (1960): A cinematic exploration of socially ‘engaged’ post-war criminality - Marco Paoli
Italian male travellers at the borderline: Masculinities and liminal spaces in Lamerica and Il ladro di bambini by Gianni Amelio - Gaoheng Zhang
Unattainable horizons: On history, man and land in the films of Ciprì and Maresco - Monica Seger
Tigre reale, uno e due: Aspetti dannunziani in un film degli anni Dieci - Fabio Andreazza
MISE-EN-SCÈNE
DVD commentaries: Three points of view
Notes on DVD commentaries - Robert S. C. Gordon
‘And there is a commentary track’ - Issa Clubb (Criterion DVD)
Paradise lost? Cinema Paradiso and the challenge of the DVD commentary - Millicent Marcus
EDITING SUITE
Project report: ‘Un nuovo cinema politico italiano?’ Indagine su un contenuto al di là di ogni sospetto - Luciana D’Arcangeli
CINEGIORNALE
Conference report: Film panels and papers at the 2011 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) annual conference - Erika Nadir and Camilla Zamboni
Introduction to the new Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies - Flavia Laviosa
Italian Cinema and Immigration Database (ICID) - Franca Pellegrini
See the journal website here: http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/ita_film
Alan O’Leary (editor Italianist Film Issue)
Italian, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Tel: +44 (0)113-3433633
Office: Michael Sadler Building 148