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Content

Articles

Reframing Japanese animation’s success in the late 1970s: UFO Robo Grendizer at the origin of the first anime boom in Italy and France
At the margins of Rome, at the margins of the world: The Hawks and the Sparrows and Sacro GRA as peripatetic analyses of capitalist society
‘I’m blind, not deaf!’: Hegemonic soundscapes and resistant hearing in Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Inferno
Italiani Made in China: Defining Italianness in second generation Chinese-Italians

Interviews

An interview with Piera Detassis: The many voices of Italian cinema
An interview with Anselma Dell’Olio: Marco Ferreri Dangerous But Necessary
From Blaxploitalian to Black- Italiano: A South African exploration of afroitalianess with Fred Kuwornu
The use of archival footage: ‘Retelling’ twentieth-century Italian history: An interview with Giovanna Gagliardo

Artist’s Corner

Johanne Affricot, culture curator, creative and artistic director, founder and creative director of GRIOT, president of LIT, Italy

Reports

Stardom and Performance in Postwar Italian Cinema 1945–1954, University of Turin, 17–18 May 2018
Report on the 2018 edition of the David di Donatello Film Awards

Film Reviews

Pagine nascoste, Sabrina Varani (2017)Reviewed by Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ghetto PSA, Rossella Schillaci (2016)

Book Reviews

Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-Garde Film, Rossella Catanese (ed.) (2018)
Relazioni brutali: Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia (2017)
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Marina Spunta and Jacopo Benci (eds) (2017)
A Companion to Italian Cinema, Cinema, Frank Burke (ed.) (2017)
Italy Beyond Gomorrah: Roberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption, Floriana Bernardi (2017)
Media Convergence and Deconvergence, Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research, Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peiland Gabriele Balbi (eds) (2017)
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation, Austin Fisher (ed.) (2016)
Orient (to) Express: Film di viaggio, etno-grafie, teoria d’autore, Marco Dalla Gassa (2016)
‘Reading Practices in Experimental Narratives: A Comparative Perspective from Print to Digital Fiction in Modern Languages’, Emanuela Patti (ed.) (2016)