{"title":"Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-first Century, Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen (eds) (2020)","authors":"Rossella Catanese","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00271_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00271_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-first Century, Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen (eds) (2020)\u0000 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 332 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-47447-403-0, p/bk, $19.99/$90.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705599","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":"Cinematic structures in Italo Calvino’s fictions","authors":"M. Bellardi","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00266_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00266_1","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the influence of cinema on Italo Calvino’s writing. Critics and even Calvino himself have tended to construe visibility in his works as purely abstract, pictorial and geometric. However, the article shows that the writer’s style includes references to film form and culture. Precise transmediations of cinematic temporality, techniques and characterization are found in his literary production from Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders’ Nests) (1947) to Palomar (Mr Palomar) (1983). Drawing on narratology and semiotics, the analysis retraces various para-cinematic techniques in Calvino’s literary corpus, pointing to the 1958 short story La signora Paulatim (Mrs Paulatim) as a prime example of full cinematization. Moreover, it points out that the characterization in Marcovaldo (1963) draws on classical slapstick comedies and anticipates some of the features found in the Fantozzi series. Finally, the article frames the contribution of film culture through the concept of ‘cinematic mode in fiction’.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"34 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141716896","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":"Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture, Dalila Missero (2022)","authors":"Paola Bonifazio","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00273_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00273_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture, Dalila Missero (2022)\u0000 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 200 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-47446-324-9, p/bk, £19.99","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706160","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":"Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers, Mary Ann Mcdonald Carolan (2022)","authors":"Michele Monserrati","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00277_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00277_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers, Mary Ann Mcdonald Carolan (2022)\u0000 Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 184 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-43849-060-1, p/bk, $95\u0000 ISBN 978-1-43849-062-5, kindle","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141705208","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":"National identity in Italian westerns and post-westerns","authors":"Jesús Ángel González","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00265_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00265_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since Schatz defined the western genre as America’s foundation ritual, several film critics have emphasized the role of the western as a foundational fiction. Interestingly enough, just like American westerns deal with American identity and its foundational myth, one can find westerns and post-westerns made in other countries that are also concerned with these countries’ national identities. This article analyses how spaghetti westerns set in the United States deal metaphorically with Italian identity and foundational myths, and how post-western films set in Italy approach similar topics more directly. The article considers several films, by directors like Pietro Germi, Sergio Sollima, Florestano Vancini or Pasquale Squitieri, from the perspective of transnational post-westerns in order to scrutinize the way they deal with the difficulties of integration of the North and the South of Italy and present different perspectives on the Italian foundational myth of Risorgimento.\u0000","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"758 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141707511","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":"Il libro bianco di Pasolini: La raccolta dei processi a Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesco Aliberti, Alessandro Di Nuzzo and Enzo Lavagnini (2022)","authors":"Anna Tonelli","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00279_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00279_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Il libro bianco di Pasolini: La raccolta dei processi a Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francesco Aliberti, Alessandro Di Nuzzo and Enzo Lavagnini (2022)\u0000 Reggio Emilia: Compagnia editoriale Aliberti, 378 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-8-89323-464-1, p/bk, €19.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141717089","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":"Suspended meanings: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s and Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘epic melodramas’","authors":"Alessandro Brunazzo","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00264_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00264_1","url":null,"abstract":"Pier Paolo Pasolini’s encounter with India is well known, but India’s engagement with Pasolini’s work is much less considered. This article puts the work of Pasolini in dialogue with the work of Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak, one of the most important figures in Indian parallel cinema. Ghatak discussed the Italian director’s work on several occasions. More importantly, Ghatak’s intellectual path and films have notable similarities with Pasolini’s. Both directors, Ghatak and Pasolini, pursued a ‘heretical’ approach to Marxist ideology by contaminating it with a passionate identification with the marginalized communities of today’s Bangladesh and southern Italy, respectively. Drawing from film critic Bhaskar Sarkar’s notion of epic melodrama, I suggest an analysis of two coeval films, Mamma Roma () and Meghe dhaka tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (), in order to expose the directors’ complex location between Brechtian aesthetic, epic-religious vision and melodramatic motives. This article argues that these epic-melodramatic films suspend a final interpretation, providing an aesthetic correlative to the unreconciled position of the people the directors aimed to represent.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"42 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141713098","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":"Fare storia del cinema: Metodi, oggetti, temi, Fabio Andreazza (ed.) (2022)","authors":"P. Villa","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00280_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00280_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Fare storia del cinema: Metodi, oggetti, temi, Fabio Andreazza (ed.) (2022)\u0000 Roma: Carocci, 239 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-8-82901-716-4, p/bk, €26.00","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"10 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141698644","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":"Good Morning Tel Aviv, Giovanna Gagliardo (dir.) (2022)","authors":"F. Laviosa","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00234_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00234_4","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Good Morning Tel Aviv, Giovanna Gagliardo (dir.) (2022)\u0000 Italy: Istituto Luce Cinecittà (colour 91’)","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"118 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712976","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":"Fashion, migration and identity in Italian cinema: The case of Billo il grand dakhaar and Bangla","authors":"Giulia Po DeLisle","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00254_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00254_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the insightful role that fabric, fashion and clothing shops have in Laura Muscardin’s Billo il grand dakhaar (Billo the Grand Dakhaar) (2008) and Phaim Bhuiyan’s first feature film Bangla (2019). Billo portrays the story of a young tailor from Senegal who dreams of becoming a fashion designer in Rome; Bangla fictionalizes the life of its director, Phaim Bhuiyan, a second-generation Italian of Bangladeshi descent. By analysing flashbacks and dream sequences as signifiers of cultural ties and by examining the role of the shops as emblematic spaces where the local and the transnational forge a new intersecting reality, the article aims to investigate how both protagonists become active agents of change and how fashion contributes to the reshaping of the landscape of the city of Rome.","PeriodicalId":283889,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140697781","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}