{"title":"Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema, Karen Pinkus (2020)","authors":"Linde Luijnenburg","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00112_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00112_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema, Karen Pinkus (2020)Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 157 pp.,ISBN 978-1-51790-854-6, p/bk, £18.99","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86287750","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":"Che fine hanno fatto i sogni? (Where Have All Our Dreams Gone?), Patrizia Fregonese de Filippo (dir.) (2020), Italy: Kalabrone Film Srl and Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (AAMOD)","authors":"Jim Carter","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00105_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00105_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87735895","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 Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture, Paola Bonifazio (2020)1","authors":"M. Buonanno","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00109_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00109_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture, Paola Bonifazio (2020)Cambridge: MIT Press, 248 pp.,ISBN 978-0-26253-923-9, p/bk, $29.95","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82865116","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":"Francesco Rosi Collection (1928‐2008)","authors":"Mauro Genovese","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00116_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00116_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72947447","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":"Trailers as mediatized performances: Investigating the use of promotional videos among Italian contemporary theatre artists","authors":"Stefano Brilli, L. Gemini","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00103_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00103_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the theatre sector, many companies, festivals and theatres have integrated promotional videos into their communication strategies. This recent development is undoubtedly due to the rise of social media and the increasing accessibility of video technologies, but also to the need for\u0000 theatre companies to publicize their work in a media that combines creative autonomy with economic efficiency. Despite this widespread use, trailers in the performing arts have received little attention in academic literature. This article offers the first, exploratory study on the use of\u0000 promotional videos in the field of contemporary theatre in Italy and on the connections between the current creation of digital promotional clips and the heritage of the Italian video-theatre. Through in-depth interviews with sixteen of the leading Italian companies, this research aims to\u0000 bring out the role theatre trailers play for performance artists.","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72409559","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":"Imperfetto presente (voci dal primo lockdown) (Present Imperfect [Voices from the First Lockdown]), Maddalena Merlino and Claudio Paletto (dirs) (2020), Italy: Like a Gym in a Squat Film","authors":"Matthew Liberti","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00107_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00107_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"286 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80275077","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":"Fame amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism, Stephen Gundle (2020)","authors":"R. Haworth","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00111_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00111_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Fame amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism, Stephen Gundle (2020)New York: Berghahn, 370 pp.,ISBN 978-1-78920-001-0, h/bk, £110.00","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83353139","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":"Heroes or criminals? The legitimacy of humanitarian organizations rescuing lives in the Central Mediterranean Sea after 2017","authors":"Maria Catena Mancuso, V. Signorelli","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00101_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00101_1","url":null,"abstract":"Since late 2016, NGOs operating in the Mediterranean have been at the centre of a campaign of delegitimization and criminalization culminating with former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s 2018 NGO ban, which de facto erased the presence of humanitarian search and rescue\u0000 operations and left the national coastguards to deal with an unprecedented migration crisis. Drawing upon discourse analysis of Italian and international news media articles and informed by semi-structured interviews with NGO representatives, this study investigates the implications of such\u0000 media-driven public hostility. The results are threefold: first, the climate of suspicion surrounding NGOs has damaged them profoundly and led to a dramatic increase in deaths. Consequently, second, NGO’s ability to present themselves publicly as legitimate has been heavily limited.\u0000 Last, it is fundamental to investigate the range of legitimation strategies all organizations can use when victims of a media-led scandal or a smear campaign are legitimized by political institutions.","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76979338","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":"Managing social, historical and ideological change in Italian cinema and media: Three new dissertations","authors":"Gianluca Giraudo, Giulio Olesen, Elena Blázquez","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00118_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00118_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79702704","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":"Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra Collection, Cineteca di Bologna","authors":"Michela Zegna","doi":"10.1386/jicms_00117_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00117_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41388,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78982730","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}