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[ecrea] JOurnal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies: Vol. 6:1, 2018

Mon Dec 04 21:18:27 GMT 2017




The Editor  is pleased to announce that Vol. 6:1, 2018of the /Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies/ is now available.

This special issue on *Documentary Film and Migration in Twentieth-century Italy *is**guest-edited by Gaoheng Zhang. Abstracts are available for review on

https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3420/

The issue includes the following contributions:

Editorial: "Documentary films on migrations in Italy: characteristics and ethics" Gaoheng Zhang, University of British Columbia

*Articles*

1. "‘Queer Italian migrations’: Tonino De Bernardi’s /Rosatigre/Tiger Rose/ (2000) and the reconfiguring of Roberto Rossellini’s /Stromboli, terra di Dio/Stromboli Land of God/ (1950)" Oliver Brett, University of Leicester

2. "Discourses of /impegno/ and Italian colonial legacies: Reassessing times, spaces and voices in documentaries on (post)colonial mobility" Gianmarco Mancosu, University of Warwick

3. "From exclusion to expression in /A Sud di Lampedusa/ and /Come un uomo sulla terra/: Visualizing detention centers along Italy-bound migrant routes" Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University

4. "Continuity and change in Italian discourse on migration: a focus on mainstream television documentaries" Paolo Orrù, University of Debrecen

5. "In the eye of the beholder: the Orientalist representation of Chinese migrants in Italian documentaries" Valentina Pedone, University of Florence

***Interviews*

1/. Interview with Dagmawi Yimer, /Simona Wright , The College of New Jersey

2./ Multiculturalism in contemporary Italy: an interview with Fred Kuwornu, /Angela Porcarelli, Emory University

3. /Migration, Identity and Poverty in the Films of Paolo Di Falco. Interview with Paolo Di Falco, /Linetto Basilone, University of Auckland

*Conference report*

/Innovation and Tensions. Italian Cinema and Media in a Global World. /First International Conference, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Emilio Audissino, University of Southampton

//

*Film review*

/Blaxploitalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema. /Director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, Blue Rose Films / Do the Right Films, 2016.

Reviewed by Riccardo Antonangeli, New York University

*Book reviews*

1./ Il giovane Fellini nello splendente fulgore della vita,/ Enzo Lavagnini (2011) Roma: Palombi Editori.

Reviewed by Gaetana Marrone, Princeton University

2.///Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative, /Emma Bond, Guido Bonsaver and Federico Faloppa (ED). (2015) (Italian Modernities; Vol. 21) Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang.

Reviewed by Sole Anatrone, Wesleyan University

3./ A Very Seductive Body Politic: Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema, /Nicoletta Marini-Maio (2015) Italy: Mimesis International.

Reviewed by Julia Heim, CUNY Graduate Center

4.///Rewind Italia. Early Video Art in Italy – I primi anni della videoarte in Italia/, Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge (eds) (2016), New Barnet, Herts: John Libbey Publishing.

Reviewed by Jacopo Benci, The British School at Rome

5./ Italian Horror Cinema/,**Edited by Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter (2016), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Reviewed by Mikel J. Koven, University of Worcester

6./ S/Murare il Mediterraneo. Un/Walling the Mediterranean. Pensieri critici e attivismo al tempo delle migrazioni // ‘Critical thoughts and activism in a time of migrations’, Cazzato, Luigi and Filippo Silvestri (eds) (2016), Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.

Reviewed by Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri-Columbia

Flavia Laviosa

Senior Lecturer
Italian Studies, Cinema & Media Studies
Wellesley College, USA
Editor, /Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies/



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