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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*

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