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
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