italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues, The Editor of JICMS is pleased to inform the community of the recent publication of Vol. 7:1, 2019 now available online. This issue includes an interview with Piera Detassis, new President of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano - Premi David di Donatello and with Anselma Dell'Olio, filmmakers Fred Kwuornu and Giovanna Gagliardo *JICMS Vol. 7:1, 2019* *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* Marco Pellitteri, Shanghai International Studies University, China *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* Eleonora Sartoni, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *‘I’m blind, not deaf!’: Hegemonic soundscapes and resistant hearing in Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Inferno* Damien Pollard, University of Cambridge, UK *Italiani Made in China**: Defining Italianness in second generation Chinese-Italians* Chiara Giuliani, University College Cork, Ireland *Interviews* *An interview with Piera Detassis: The many voices of Italian cinema* Massimo Mascolo, Okozoko LLC, Accademia del cinema italiano – Premi David di Donatello, Italy *An interview with Anselma Dell’Olio: Marco Ferreri Dangerous But Necessary* Massimo Mascolo, Okozoko LLC, Accademia del cinema italiano – Premi David di Donatello, Italy *From Blaxploitalian to Black- Italiano: A South African exploration of afroitalianess with Fred Kuwornu* Anita Virga and Brian Zuccala, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa *The use of archival footage: ‘Retelling’ twentieth-century Italian history: An interview with Giovanna Gagliardo* Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College, USA *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* Catherine O’Rawe, University of Bristol, UK *Report on the 2018 edition of the David di Donatello Film Awards* Massimo Mascolo, Okozoko LLC, Accademia del cinema italiano – Premi David di Donatello, Italy *Film Reviews* *Pagine nascoste, Sabrina Varani (2017)* Reviewed by Maria Bonaria Urban, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *Ghetto PSA, Rossella Schillaci (2016)* Reviewed by Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA *Book Reviews* *Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-Garde Film, Rossella Catanese (ed.) (2018)* Reviewed by Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, Canada *Relazioni brutali: Genere e violenza nella cultura mediale, Elisa Giomi and Sveva Magaraggia (2017)* Reviewed by Dana Renga, The Ohio State University, USA *Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Marina Spunta and Jacopo Benci (eds) (2017)* Reviewed by Sarah Patricia Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *A Companion to Italian Cinema, Cinema, Frank Burke (ed.) (2017)* Reviewed by Matthew Griffith, Harvard University, USA *Italy Beyond Gomorrah: Roberto Saviano and Transmedia Disruption, Floriana Bernardi (2017)* Reviewed by Alberto Brodesco, University of Trento, Italy *Media Convergence and Deconvergence, Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research, Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peiland Gabriele Balbi (eds) (2017)* Reviewed by Monica Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands *Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation, Austin Fisher (ed.) (2016)* Reviewed by Flavia Brizio-Skov, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA *Orient (to) Express: Film di viaggio, etno-grafie, teoria d’autore, Marco Dalla Gassa (2016)* Reviewed by Stefano Bona, Flinders University, Australia * ‘Reading Practices in Experimental Narratives: A Comparative Perspective from Print to Digital Fiction in Modern Languages’, Emanuela Patti (ed.) (2016)* Reviewed by Alessandro Carpin, Brown University, USA Thank you for your attention. Best, Flavia Laviosa Senior Lecturer Department of Italian Studies Wellesley College, USA Resident Director, E.C.Co <http://e.c.co/>. in Bologna, Fall 2018 Founding Editor, *Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies* 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* ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/italian-studies