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The Italianist - Annual Film Issue EDITORS |
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This issue provides an outlet for publications (in English and Italian) linked to an aspect of Italian studies that has increasingly occupied scholars in recent years, but which has until now been without a dedicated forum.
Just as the journal has always primarily embraced original research, the Film Issue devotes most of its space to scholarly articles on all aspects of Italian film, television, and screen studies. However, it also accommodates other kinds of publication: the ‘Editing Suite’ section is devoted to interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters, and other figures associated with the industry, as well as surveys of recent filmmaking and production; ‘Cinegiornale’ is dedicated to short notes, review articles and assessments of recent noteworthy events; ‘Mise-en-scène’ features critical surveys of important scholarly and methodological questions.
The Italianist Film Issue represents the richness of Italian film history and promotes productive and innovative ways of studying this history. It offers scholars from different disciplines an arena in which to gather in order to celebrate and interrogate a common fascination with one of the great traditions of audio-visual narrative.
2012 Film Issue
The mise-en-scène section of this third dedicated film issue of the Italianist is
intended as a kind of sequel to the ‘Personal Histories’ section of the ‘Thinking
Italian Film’ special number of Italian Studies (63: 2 (2008), 255-77), in which
senior scholars of Italian cinema were invited to reflect on their particular research
interests, writing and/or experience of teaching Italian film. We are delighted
that Peter Bondanella, Richard Dyer, Marcia Landy, and Geoffrey NowellSmith
have accepted our invitation to write on their careers and concerns; we
hope to host similar contributions from other senior scholars in future issues. The
cinegiornale rubric introduced in 2010 is usefully filled this year with reports
from conferences and workshops. Convenors of, or participants at workshops,
seminars and conferences are always invited to submit reports or critical accounts
to the journal. We would particularly like to thank graduate students Pierluigi
Erbaggio and Camilla Zamboni for their exhaustive account of film papers and
panels at the 2010 conference of the American Association of Italian Studies.
Also in the cinegiornale is a description of another journal dedicated entirely
to the study of Italian cinema: the richly packed Quaderni del CSCI, edited
from Barcelona by Daniela Aronica. In the editing suite, Lucia Cardone and
Mariagrazia Fanchi’s account of film and gender studies in Italy, including their
own essential work, is intended to encourage discussion and collaboration between
the Italian and Anglophone academies.
The scholarly articles that lead this issue cover a wide range of themes (from
single films to entire filoni), and adopt a variety of approaches from the auteurist
to the Foucauldian.....Read full editiorial here
Table of Contents
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pp. 153-153(1)
Authors: Marcus, Millicent; O'Leary, Alan
Articles
Work, welfare, bio-politics: Italian and American film propaganda of the Reconstruction in the age of neorealism
pp. 155-180(26)
Author: Bonifazio, Paola
A storm of images: Italian Renaissance art in Luis Trenker's Condottieri (1937)
pp. 181-204(24)
Author: Baskins, Cristelle
Fellini's commercials: Biting the hand that feeds
pp. 205-242(38)
Author: Burke, Frank
Pastapocalypse! End times in Italian trash cinema
pp. 243-257(15)
Author: Renga, Dana
Tableaux mourants: L'immagine di Aldo Moro tra fotografia, pagina scritta e cinema
pp. 258-269(12)
Author: Uva, Christian
Mise-en-Scène
My Italian Cinema
pp. 270-275(6)
Author: Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
My path to Italian cinema
pp. 276-280(5)
Author: Bondanella, Peter
An 'outsider's' reflections on Italian cinematic culture
pp. 281-286(6)
Author: Landy, Marcia
Going Italian
pp. 287-292(6)
Author: Dyer, Richard
Editing Suite
Che genere di schermo? Incroci fra storia del cinema e gender studies in Italia
pp. 293-303(11)
Authors: Cardone, Lucia; Fanchi, Mariagrazia
The aesthetics of documentary filmmaking and Giallo a Milano: An interview with film director Sergio Basso and sociologist Daniele Cologna
pp. 304-318(15)
Author: Bonsaver, Guido
Conference reports
Film panels and papers at the 2010 American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) annual conference
pp. 319-323(5)
Authors: Erbaggio, Pierluigi; Zamboni, Camilla
'Narrating Migration'
pp. 324-328(5)
Author: Bond, Emma
L'italiano e il cinema/The voice in Italian cinema
pp. 329-331(3)
Author: Wood, Mary P.
Quaderni del CSCI: rivista annuale di cinema italiano
pp. 332-334(3)
Author: Aronica, Daniela
