Publications and papers / Pubblicazioni e convegni
Publications and papers / Pubblicazioni e convegni
ABOUT
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Associate Professor at University of Milan, I teach Film History and Criticism and Cinema and Cultural Studies at University of Milan. I have authored seven books, forty articles and more than thirty conference presentations. I’m the PI of the Research Project of National Interest (PRIN 2022) Cinema and the LGBTQ+ movements, from the first traces to institutionalization (1945-1989) funded by the Italian Ministry of University. and Research.
research
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A new perspective on Visconti's works and public image, and on the literature on him, based on a revaluation of his transgressive component and on a philological analysis of his papers...
Sexuality as a privileged perspective to rethink film history, how it has been conceived and the cultural practices connected to both art and popular films, to the extreme of pornography.
A hidden history involving any aspect of cinematic institution, from industry to audience, criticism, stardom, with fallouts on dominant knowledge, popular culture and media representations.
Hitchcock's work on gender and sexuality not only is open to always new dissections, but has had an enormous influence: studying both means to have a privileged viewpoint on the great part of film culture.
FILM CRITICISM AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
A consideration of both academic historiography and a criticism marginal in terms of ideological extremism, limited circulation and the social position of targeted readers, as a way to discuss forms and meaning of studying cinema.
books
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema: from the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead
Palgrave MacMillan, London 2017, pp. XVI, 272, 31 ill. (revised Italian edition, corrected and augmented, Omosessualità e cinema italiano. Dalla caduta del fascismo agli anni di piombo, UTET, Turin 2019)
This book is the first to establish the relevance of same-sex desires, pleasures and anxieties in the cinema of post-war Italy. It explores cinematic representations of homosexuality and their significance in a wider cultural struggle in Italy involving society, cinema, and sexuality between the 1940s and 1970s...
EDITED BOOKS AND ISSUES
I cattolici, il cinema e il sesso in Italia tra gli anni ’40 e gli anni ’70
Schermi, vol. 1, n. 1, 2017
LATEST articles
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
The Italian Film Censorship (1948-1976). A Quantitative Analysis (with T. Subini), in D. Biltereyst, E. Mathijs (eds.), The Screen Censorship Companion. Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media, University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2024, pp. 245-253.
Un documentario senza documenti. Divagazioni in margine a Morte a Venezia in E. Mosconi et al. (a cura di), Polvere di stelle. Cinema e cronaca in 41 immagini del quotidiano «La Notte», ETS, Pisa 2023, pp. 201-206.
"«Sono sempre storie complicate». Il progetto Stanotte hanno sparato di Michelangelo Antonioni”, Non, a. I, n. 1, 2023, pp. 73-88.
Gay and Lesbian e Queer studies, in F. Andreazza (a cura di), Fare storia del cinema. Metodi, oggetti, temi, Carocci, Roma 2022, pp. 61-71.
Vecchi fusti e nuovi fusti: appunti su maschilità, cinema e destra radicale del dopoguerra, in A.B. Saponari, F. Zecca (eds), Oltre l'inetto? Rappresentazioni plurali della mascolinità nel cinema italiano, Meltemi, Milano 2021, pp. 121-135.
TRANSLATED ARTICLES
Polymorphous but Not Perverse: Heuristic Aspects of the Monstrous in David Cronenberg’s Cinema, in Mario Mainetti (ed.), Anatomical Waxes. La Specola di Firenze. David Cronenberg, Fondazione Prada, Milano 2023, pp. 338-354.
REVIEWS
Una poetica riemersa, Luchino di Giovanni Testori, a cura di Giovanni Agosti, «Fata Morgana Web», 12 dicembre 2022
INTERVIEWS
Interview on the website letture.org about the book Homosexuality and Italian Cinema (October 2019) B
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