{"title":"Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956–1975, Michael Guarneri (2020)","authors":"Alberto Iozzia","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00270_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00270_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956–1975, Michael Guarneri (2020)\u0000 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 232 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-47445-811-5, p/bk, £19.99","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"50 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eccentric, unintelligible, gregarious and undomesticated: Southern Italian female characters in three films by Leonardo Pieraccioni","authors":"Marcello Messina","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00268_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00268_1","url":null,"abstract":"Prominent scholarship on the Italian South has reflected on the otherized, inferiorized and racialized positionality of the region’s territories, cultures and populations within the national Italian debate, with the North functioning as an allegedly virtuous norm that the South constantly fails to conform to. The gendered imagery that inscribes this type of ethnic and territorial subordination permits, in this context, the visualization of anomalous, recalcitrant and undomesticated Southern women that function as a metaphor of the irredeemable otherness of the South. In this article, I use as a starting point three films starring and directed by Leonardo Pieraccioni, namely I laureati (The Graduates) (1995), Il ciclone (The Cyclone) (1996) and Il paradiso all’improvviso (Suddenly Paradise) (2003). I consider these films in order to analyse the screen personas of Tosca D’Aquino and Anna Maria Barbera, both of whom embody, in different ways, the encounter between Southern identity, eccentricity and non-normative corporalities.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"97 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141697406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mourning the Italian boys: ‘Gen Z’, masculinity, teen stardom","authors":"Silvia Vacirca","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00267_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00267_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to help fill a quasi-void in Italian film scholarship regarding media representations of Italian teen gender identities. It explores the role of Italian performers belonging to the so-called ‘Generation Z’, in terms of their emerging professional trajectories – with a focus on the post-pandemic context – and representations of gender, finding that the ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ played by Italian teen actors in movies and media outlets negotiate emerging cultural and social trends in representing gendered identities. Through a close analysis of filmic and media texts, as well as a trove of data acquired via ten in-person interviews conducted with carefully selected Italian actors, the article also examines how their characters and media personas negotiate traditional gender stereotypes and the cultural status of their profession.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"89 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141695849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘An iron, pyjamas, an apron, a Pandora bracelet’: The social shadow of sexism in Italian adverts","authors":"Emilia Di Martino","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00263_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00263_1","url":null,"abstract":"This is an exploratory article engaging with an advertisement that appeared on the billboards of Milan’s metro network in December 2017. Investigating discourse as the prominent site for identifying the ideological assumptions embedded in language use and the existing social conventions emerging from them, the author argues that the use or frequency of sexist stereotypes does not necessarily mark a brand’s alignment with sexism. The methodology adopted is a form of Bakhtinian stylistics, i.e., an analysis of texts with a view to evaluate the addressivity and answerability of utterances and investigate their heteroglossic and interindividual nature as well as their positioning within a specific community, time and place. Based on a constructionist and critical sociolinguistics matrix, this study focuses on style meant as the particular ways an individual uses language as social practice through which ideological assumptions emerge.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"43 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141690212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A space for the female viewer? The spectatorial gaze and damaged masculinity in Tre metri sopra il cielo and Ho voglia di te","authors":"Dan Paul","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00269_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00269_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I analyse the narratives of Tre metri sopra il cielo (Three Steps Over Heaven) (Lucini 2004) and its sequel, Ho voglia di te (‘I desire you’) (Prieto 2007) through the gendered paradigm of the spectatorial gaze theorized by Laura Mulvey. These films, I argue, subtly shift the active/male, passive/female paradigm of looking by displacing Step (Riccardo Scamarcio) as the focalizing subject, thereby empowering the films’ female protagonists – Babi (in Three Steps Over Heaven) and Gin (in Ho voglia di te) and female viewers. By subverting norms associated with the gendered gaze, I contend that these films reimagine heteronormative gender roles in Italy in a way that resonated primarily with its female audience. By focusing on women who transgress traditional gender norms, and by presenting a damaged form of masculinity, these films successfully create a space for the female spectator.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"72 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World, Massimo Riva (2022)","authors":"Emanuela Patti","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00272_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00272_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World, Massimo Riva (2022)\u0000 Stanford: Stanford University Press\u0000 ISBN 978-1-50362-987-5, e-book","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV, Francesco Buscemi (2022)","authors":"Ana Tominc","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00278_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00278_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV, Francesco Buscemi (2022)\u0000 Bristol: Intellect, 170 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-78938-406-2, h/bk, £85.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"422 1‐2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141707749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’Italia che Guarda: Geografie del Consumo Audiovisivo, Giorgio Avezzù (2022)","authors":"Alex Marlow-Mann","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00275_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00275_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: L’Italia che Guarda: Geografie del Consumo Audiovisivo, Giorgio Avezzù (2022)\u0000 Rome: Carocci Editore, 201 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-8-82901-536-8, p/bk, €25.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"11 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular Music Stardom in Post-war Italy, Rachel Haworth (2022)","authors":"Elena Mosconi","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00274_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00274_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular Music Stardom in Post-war Italy, Rachel Haworth (2022)\u0000 Bristol and Chicago, IL: Intellect, 272 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-78938-560-1, h/bk, GBP 85.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"4 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141700870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Los Condenados de la Tierra: Un film entre Europa y el Tercer Mundo, Alberto Filippi and Mariano Mestman (2022)","authors":"Lucas Peretti","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00276_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00276_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Los Condenados de la Tierra: Un film entre Europa y el Tercer Mundo, Alberto Filippi and Mariano Mestman (2022)\u0000 Buenos Aires: Ediciones Akal, 509 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-9-87836-739-2, p/bk, e-book, €7.99","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"29 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141703608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}