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{"title":"Per una storia privata della critica cinematografica italiana","authors":"Michele Guerra, Jennifer Malvezzi, A. Mariani, Sara Martín, P. Noto, Giulio Tosi","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1939516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1939516","url":null,"abstract":"Michele Guerra: Negli ultimi anni la ricerca in ambito umanistico ha conosciuto in Italia un notevole incremento del lavoro di squadra. Sono nati sempre più gruppi di ricerca che hanno saputo collegare meglio gli atenei e promuovere un proficuo e meno problematico rapporto intergenerazionale. Se fino a un decennio fa era ancora tutto sommato abbastanza raro, nei nostri settori, assistere ad articoli o a volumi a più mani, ora vi sono ambiti di ricerca che non sono più considerati affrontabili se non attraverso il confronto e la modularità del lavoro in team. Il nostro progetto credo rappresenti molto bene uno dei temi rispetto ai quali il lavoro di gruppo si è rivelato decisivo. La critica cinematografica, al netto delle preziose e pur necessarie visioni d’insieme che hanno visto singoli studiosi ricostruire le linee del dibattito e la geografia delle riviste, ha bisogno di un lavoro di spoglio e di scavo che è impensabile condurre in solitaria. Soprattutto, ha bisogno di una duttilità metodologica che deve di volta in volta misurarsi con le fonti (i periodici nelle loro diverse anime, dal pezzo più impegnato alla corrispondenza coi lettori), con l’archivio (pubblico e in non pochi casi più delicatamente privato), con le politiche e i poteri editoriali, con le figure di critico che hanno saputo irradiare un sistema di influenze capace di costruire discorsi estremamente solidi e duraturi, con le testimonianze orali oggi sempre più preziose per ricucire passaggi a lungo trascurati. Al contempo, mutano gli strumenti della comunicazione scientifica. Restano evidentemente valide le forme classiche della pubblicazione dei risultati della ricerca, ma sempre più si sente il bisogno di sistematizzare, di mappare, di ordinare questi risultati con l’aiuto dei dispositivi digitali che schiudono nuove frontiere di ricerca e presuppongono nuove tipologie di studioso, per cui anche le Humanities si avviano a riconoscere l’importanza di figure versate nell’elaborazione di dati che fino ad oggi sembravano rilevanti solo per gli ambiti delle scienze esatte, o per quelli economici e sociologici. Nel nostro caso, infine, anche la videoripresa si rivela uno strumento di enorme utilità, che ci consente di rendere pubbliche diverse interviste e di pensare addirittura a forme videosaggistiche di disseminazione della nostra ricerca; uno strumento che etnologi, antropologi e sociologi utilizzano da molti anni e che negli studi sul cinema è meno impiegato di quanto meriterebbe. A mio modo di vedere se la storiografia sul cinema in Italia ha","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"235 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055984","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":"Collaborative Film Language Analysis in the Networked Information Era","authors":"Allison Cooper","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1992098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1992098","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores new approaches to film analysis made possible through collaborations among film and media scholars, information scientists, and computer scientists. It examines in particular strategies for developing the field of digital film analysis through the creation of a film language ontology, improvements in machine learning in relation to film language, and academic crowdsourcing. It considers the role of a specific knowledge platform, Kinolab, in relation to more traditional forms of film analysis, contextualising the application of digital methodologies within the broader study of film language and challenges of film analysis.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"175 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48733918","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":"Studying Film and TV Actors (and Their Intermediaries): A Cultural and Industrial Approach","authors":"L. Barra, F. Pitassio","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1950425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1950425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introduction summarises the main goals and issues of the research project in its initial phase on contemporary Italian film and television actors, which is drawing together performance studies, stardom/celebrity studies, and media industries studies. The whole project, and this first output, shows how collaboration between disciplines, perspectives, and methods will help to better understand the many layers of a complex, multifaceted phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"249 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41918797","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":"La rabbia (1963): il film-saggio e la funzione-Benjamin nel cinema di Pasolini","authors":"Simone Monti","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1909691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1909691","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article takes into consideration Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La rabbia (1963). After briefly contextualising and matching it to the then-new genre of the found footage essay film, the article identifies precise points of contact between the text in which Pasolini first presented his film to the public and the first Italian translation of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History. Proceeding from these findings, the article shows how Benjamin’s work influenced Pasolini’s film, in terms of both content and form. This influence is firstly traced in the film’s main component, the contraposition of two voices, that of normalcy and ideology versus that of the author, which reflects Benjamin’s thought on the task of the historical materialist. Secondly, contacts between Pasolini’s film and Benjamin’s Marxist and millenaristic conception of history are identified both in the structure of the film and in its framing and interpretation of the historical events selected.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"308 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02614340.2021.1909691","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45871201","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":"Numbers Matter: A Conversation on Oral History, Statistical Analysis, Film Popularity, and Collaborations","authors":"D. T. Gennari, John Sedgwick","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1969505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1969505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"224 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46238045","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":"Reframing Madness with Avant-Garde Film: Lina Mangiacapre’s Feminist Collaboration at the Asylum","authors":"Hilary Althea Emerson","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1967645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1967645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses Lina Mangiacapre's avant-garde feminist filmography, a body of work that, despite recent growth in Italian feminist film studies, remains a neglected area of study. Specifically, the article investigates Mangiacapre's avant-garde featurette Follia come poesia (1979), the fruit of her two-year occupation of the local Frullone Asylum and artistic collaboration with the institutionalised women there. After situating Mangiacapre within the larger Italian radical psychiatry movement, the article distinguishes her subversive feminist theory and praxis from more mainstream sexual difference theory. Through a critical analysis of Follia come poesia, the article argues that Mangiacapre reframes the concept of madness as more than to-be-cured-ness through cinematography, editing, and sound. It concludes that through cinematic prowess, Mangiacapre provides an audiovisual exhibition of her subversive theory, interrogates conventions surrounding madness, foregrounds the individuality of each incarcerated woman, and constructs a representation of the institutionalised as active, mobile, creative subjects.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"323 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42005540","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":"Our gender/sexuality/italy: Collaboration as Feminist Practice","authors":"Paola Bonifazio, Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Ellen Nerenberg","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1932069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1932069","url":null,"abstract":"The collaboration of the three authors began with founding g/s/i – gender/sexuality/italy, an open-source journal now (in 2021) entering its eighth year. This collaboration has been nurtured by others we have participated in: Ellen and Nicoletta with the organisation of a touring theatre piece and translation from 2010 (Marco Baliani’s Body of State) and their current co-authored book project on WinxClub. Paola and Nicoletta are currently in the early stages of a co-authored article on female teen sexuality in Italian TV series, and Paola has collaborated on an archive-based research project with her graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, the results of which were published in a special section of The Italianist in 2019. The three-way collaboration on g/s/i also benefits from labour organisation and decision-making. We discuss all important editorial practices, policies, and questions, but each take primary responsibility for particular sections of the journal. Nicoletta edits the ‘Themed’ section that corresponds to the all call for papers, Ellen has oversight of ‘Open Contributions’ and ‘Continuing Discussions’, and Paola edits and curates ‘Invited Perspectives’. Over time, several colleagues have served as editors of the reviews section, with Colleen Ryan and Erica Moretti currently sharing those responsibilities. Junior colleagues, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students have also served in administrative capacities, setting the stage for transgenerational exchanges and others we call ‘transacademic’. We have promoted conversations about how to establish other collaborations within our intersecting fields, including with other institutions, organisations, and journals. This conversation for The Italianist came as an invitation from one set of journal editors to another and in response to the call for papers for g/s/i 7, which centres on collaboration.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"229 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48529684","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":"Dagmawi Yimer’s Participatory Video Pedagogy","authors":"V. Castelli, Giulia Sbaffi, Dagmawi Yimer","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1894375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1894375","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past ten years, Ethiopian filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer has conducted participatory video workshops in secondary schools in Italy. In this article, we engage in a dialogue with Yimer about these workshops, which involve collaboration and community building, and address issues of racism, equity and social justice. By relying on participatory filmmaking pedagogies, Yimer creates an inclusive space where students can create and tell stories together. He also empowers students by teaching them the technical skills needed to make a film so that they can continue experimenting with digital storytelling. By so doing, Yimer enables students to tell stories in the future both of and for their communities without his guidance. We especially focus on Yimer's work with a group of high-school students during a participatory video workshop at the Liceo Statale Carlo Montanari in Verona in early 2020. We discuss a short film, Io sono, made by these students about daily racist micro-aggressions against a young Muslim girl, Aisha, on her way to school.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"156 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46613385","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 Example of Circular Collaboration. A Conversation with Anna Kauber on the Making of In questo mondo","authors":"Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1933321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1933321","url":null,"abstract":"In December 2018, Anna Kauber’s In questo mondo premiered at the Torino Film Festival and won the prize for best Italian documentary film of the year. The documentary focuses on the life of shepherdesses in Italy and is the result of over two years of work between 2015 and 2017. Kauber traveled alone throughout Italy, covering over 17,000 kilometres from North to South, including Sardinia and Sicily, while following the daily practices of more than 100 women with their animals. Her documentation of Italian women shepherds adds an essential piece to the larger mosaic of the history, tradition, geography, and culture of the Italian rural world. Yet the film documents much more than this. It provides undeniable visual evidence of the deep relation of interdependence, connection, harmony, and intimate collaboration among humans, animals, and the natural landscape. This brief introduction provides context for an interview with the film director about the range of collaborations with the shepherdesses, animals, and surrounding landscape and with those who helped her to realise In questo mondo. Kauber is a filmmaker, writer, and landscape artist interested in the relationship between humans, food, and the natural landscape. In the last decade her work has documented life and work in rural areas across Italy. Her book Le vie dei campi was awarded the ‘Parole di Terra’ national literary prize in 2014, and her video of interviews, Ritratti di donna e di terra, was screened in 2015 at the Cineteca of Bologna for an event sponsored by the region of Emilia Romagna and by Slow Food. Anna Kauber conceived and completed In questo mondo as a low-budget documentary, serving as project creator, film director, photographer, cameraman, and sound editor. She purposely traveled alone, relating one-on-one with the women shepherds to avoid external interference while filming. Her presence behind the camera is discreet; she tries not to intervene in the daily routines of her interlocutors. There is no prepared script or formal direction. During the days she spent with the shepherdesses, Kauber simply followed her subjects, holding the camera as if it were ‘a hat, a rain jacket, or backpack’, so that it wouldn’t create any uneasiness. She would focus the camera and shoot while walking, without a tripod or sound system, allowing her curious eye and attentive ear to record the events around her. In this way, the camera is a discreet presence capturing formerly unseen details of the quotidian world","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"202 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49252451","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":"Film Dubbing and Collaborative Pedagogy","authors":"F. Di Blasio, Viola Ardeni","doi":"10.1080/02614340.2021.1961060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2021.1961060","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss the multi-layered collaboration occurring among students, between students and teachers, and among instructors in the context of an advanced Italian course at the college level. We specifically showcase the project-based learning activity Ma chi parla? (Who Is Talking?), during which students generated the audiovisual translation from English to Italian of film and television show excerpts. We argue that, in its implementation in fall 2018 at our institution, Ma chi parla? fostered creativity, engagement, and pluralism thanks to its collaborative structure, in addition to establishing a decentralised co-laboratory of cultural experiences. The article also frames Ma chi parla? as a starting point to reflect on audiovisual translation, in particular dubbing, as a long-standing tradition in Italy, to illuminate its history, to question its cultural effects, and to problematise its pedagogical applications.","PeriodicalId":42720,"journal":{"name":"Italianist","volume":"41 1","pages":"185 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47049446","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}