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The Editor is pleased to announce the publications of the special issue of 

JICMS Vol. 6:3, 2018 on Rome, Open City

 

https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3607/


Editorial Rome, Open City: Rupture and Return

Louis Bayman, University of Southampton

Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick

Karl Schoonover, University of Warwick

Rome, Open City before and after Neorealism

David Forgacs, New York University



The Reception of Rome, Open City in France (1946-68). Realism for the Elites, Revolution for the People

Valerio Coladonato, The American University of Paris

 

Death and the gaze in Rome, Open City

 

Stefania Parigi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

 

Re-reading Marina: sexuality, materialism and the construction of Italy

 

Dom Holdaway, University of Bologna

Dalila Missero, University of Milan



Notes on the end of Rome, Open City

 

Charles L. Leavitt IV, University of Reading

 

Popular culture, performance, persona. Anna Magnani between Rome, Open City and The Rose Tattoo

 

Francesco Pitassio, Università degli Studi di Udine

 

(Un)dressing authenticity: neorealist stardom and Anna Magnani in the postwar (1945-1948)

Sergio Rigoletto, University of Oregon
 

 

 

 

Film Reviews:

 

Libere Director Rossella Schillaci, National Film Archive of the Resistance, with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo; City of Turin; Piemonte Doc Film Fund in association with Azulfilm, 2017

Reviewed by Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam

 

 

Review of student films from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinema, Class of 2017

Reviewed by Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

A History of Italian Cinema, Second Edition, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni (2017) New York and London: Bloomsbury 739 pp., ISBN:978-1-5013-0763-8, p/bk, $39.95

Reviewed by Millicent Marcus, Yale University

 

 

Marvelous Bodies. Italy’s New Migrant Cinema. Vetri Nathan (2017). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 253 pp., ISBN: 9781557537737, p/bk $45.00.

Reviewed by Sole Anatrone, Wesleyan University

 

Muscoli e frac: il divismo maschile nel cinema muto italiano, 1910-1929, Denis Lotti (2016) Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 228 pp., ISBN: 978-8849849042, p/bk, €14.00

Reviewed by Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

 

Peplum: Il cinema italiano alle prese col mondo antico, Francesco Di Chiara (2016) Rome: Donzelli-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, 198 pp., ISBN: 978-8868434359, p/bk, €21.00

Reviewed by Robert A. Rushing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Italian Style: Fashion and Film from Early Cinema to the Digital Age, Eugenia Paulicelli, New York; London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2016), 272 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4411-8915-8, p/bk, £31.99

Reviewed by Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter

 

Imagining. Serialità, narrazioni cinematografiche e fotografia nella pubblicità contemporanea, Stefania Antonioni (2016) Milano: Franco Angeli, 123 pp., ISBN: 9788891743411, p/bk, €16.50

Reviewed by Giacomo Ravesi, Roma Tre University

 

Pasolini Requiem. Second Edition, Barth David Schwartz (2016) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 720 pp., ISBN 978-0226335025, p/bk £24.00.

Reviewed by Filippo Trentin, University of Pennsylvania

 

La musica alla radio 1924-1954. Storia, effetti, contesti in prospettiva europea, Angela Ida De Benedictis (ED., in collaboration with Franco Monteleone) (2015) Rome: Bulzoni, 418 pp., ISBN: 978-88-7870-971-3, p/bk, €30.00

Reviewed by Emilio Audissino, University of Southampton

 

Pasolini: Cinema e antropologia, Donatella Maraschin (2014). Bern: Peter Lang AG: Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 296 pp., ISBN: 978-3034302555, p/bk, $64.95

Reviewed by Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College


Dr. Flavia Laviosa
Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian Studies
Wellesley College, USA
Resident Director, E.C.Co. in Bologna, Fall 2018
Founding Editor, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies


















 


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