italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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