ItalianistPub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2023.2171658
Giovanni Casini
{"title":"From England to Italy via Paris: Gino Severini and the Sitwells at Montegufoni","authors":"Giovanni Casini","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2023.2171658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2023.2171658","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45580186","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2023.2200285
Alyssa M. Granacki
{"title":"Writing the ‘Woman Destroyed’ in Elena Ferrante and Simone de Beauvoir","authors":"Alyssa M. Granacki","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2023.2200285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2023.2200285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45140564","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2023.2185997
F. Camilletti
{"title":"Il medium di Buzzati. Spiritismo e meccaniche della paura nel reportage In cerca dell’Italia misteriosa","authors":"F. Camilletti","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2023.2185997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2023.2185997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48650804","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2167326
Anna Finozzi
{"title":"Podcasting the Italian Postcolonial: An Analysis of Black Coffee and S/Confini","authors":"Anna Finozzi","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2167326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2167326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41258579","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2023.2185396
Nazzareno Cicchi
{"title":"Il sacrificio di Argillano: sedizione e orrore nella Gerusalemme liberata","authors":"Nazzareno Cicchi","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2023.2185396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2023.2185396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41276954","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2042086
Áine O'healy, C. Romeo
{"title":"Narrating the Transnational Trajectories and Transgender Performances of the Sworn Virgin","authors":"Áine O'healy, C. Romeo","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2042086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2042086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how two recent configurations of the Albanian sworn virgin prompt a reflection on the intersection of transgender discourses with questions of transnational mobility. Elvira Dones’s novel Vergine giurata and its eponymous cinematic adaptation (directed by Laura Bispuri) imagine in diverging ways the material and symbolic disruptions that occur when this tribally sanctioned figure leaves Albania for another nation. Novel and film suggest to different degrees how this distinctive transgender figure challenges binary regimes of heteronormativity and the power-knowledge systems underpinning them, revealing contrasting investments in the possibilities of the sworn virgin's integration into the respective migratory settings.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"268 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44616329","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2076013
Lora Jury
{"title":"Interrogating the Esso Insignia: Feminised Labour Depictions and the Economic Boom","authors":"Lora Jury","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2076013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2076013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay analyses the correlation between the infiltration of global capitalism and the representation of feminised labour in the Italian cinema of the economic boom. Specifically, it focuses on the presence of Esso oil company branding, frequently featured in Italian films from the 1950s and 1960s that centre depictions of feminised labour, including but not limited to the sale of sex. The juxtaposition between Esso branding and the visual representations of working women’s stories on screen emphasises the discrepancy between the thriving financial success of global industry and the struggles of working-class Italian women, for whom the promises of the economic boom proved elusive. Yet the juxtaposition also demonstrates the substantial economic role played by women, upon whom Italian society is dependent as a form of both fiscal and cultural capital.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"246 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44301788","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2126108
C. Romeo
{"title":"The Intersectional Counter-Gaze of Geneviève Makaping in Traiettorie di sguardi","authors":"C. Romeo","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2126108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2126108","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Traiettorie di sguardi is a hybrid text – partly memoir, partly anthropological essay – in which for the first time in Italian literature the author as a Black woman reverses the colonial gaze and records the racist attitude of the Italian population toward Black people. Makaping thus rewrites a long ethnographic tradition in which Africans have constituted the object of observation rather than the subjects of epistemology and produces the first theoretical reflection elaborated by a Black Italian (woman) intellectual in the Italian language on structural racism in Italy as a legacy of colonialism.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"189 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47400172","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}
ItalianistPub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/02614340.2022.2146862
Valentina Re
{"title":"Netflix all’italiana: The Netflix Experience as Narrated by Italian Users","authors":"Valentina Re","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2022.2146862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2022.2146862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present paper contributes to Internet-distributed television research by illustrating the results of a qualitative empirical study carried out in October 2019: by originally combining the tools of social research and ethnosemiotics, the study investigated how a panel of sixty Italian Netflix viewers perceived the platform’s recommender system and its impact on their autonomy of taste and choice. The ethnosemiotic analysis confirmed, through direct observation of user practices, the generally favourable perception of the ‘Netflix experience’ as an adequate balance between personalised recommendations and freedom of choice. At the same time, it also highlighted its problematic features, showing that synchronised and collective experiences remain important values in ‘streaming culture’ and that subscribers adopt a variety of tactics to circumvent the recommender system.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"42 1","pages":"289 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209712","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}