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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 CinemaCinema, 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. 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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