Sguardi sulla città. Immagini e suoni migranti nel cinema e nei media contemporanei

This Focus presents a collection of essays from the conference “Looking at the City: Filming City-scapes as a Multicultural and Multidentity Experience” (January 2019 - Florence University). The collection highlights ways in which migrants are portrayed in cinema and traditional media, with particular attention to the dynamics of self-representation in its interaction with city-scapes or urban landscapes.This Focus presents a collection of essays from the conference “Looking at the City: Filming City-scapes as a Multicultural and Multidentity Experience” (January 2019 - Florence University). The collection highlights ways in which migrants are portrayed in cinema and traditional media, with particular attention to the dynamics of self-representation in its interaction with city-scapes or urban landscapes

Stelle di mezzo secolo: divismo e rappresentazione della sessualità nel cinema italiano (1948-1978)

Special issue on Italian stardom and sexuality

“Cerchiamo un bambino distinto”. La genesi di Bellissima nei soggetti di Cesare Zavattini

This contribution investigates, from a philological-historical perspective, the different versions of texts by Cesare Zavattini that will later merge into the subject of “Bellissima”, the film directed in 1951 by Luchino Visconti, starring Anna Magnani. Through a crucial decade for Italian cinema, the early forties and fifties of the twentieth century, the variants depict mutable scenarios through deep historical, political and cultural changes. From Fascist Cinecittà, animated by its stars swept away by the Second World War, to the change of gender of the two protagonists—first a widower and his son, then a woman willing to barter her daughter in exchange for the realization of their dreams—the variants of the subject draw a long-standing perspective on modern society: life becomes a show

Perdute e ritrovate: uno sguardo d’insieme

The essay offers an introduction to the Women Film Pioneers Project, a collaborative research launched about the end of the last century and now involving contributions by several dozens of scholars across the world. Three key methodological issues are examined: periodization and the choice to focus on silent cinema, the adoption of a transnational approach, and the project’s orientation toward a concept of social history. In this frame, the ongoing investigation concerning the work of Italian women film pioneers is presented as a valuable contribution to a deeper appreciation of the global phenomenon of women’s participation into the film industries and cultures of early XXth century

Women and the Silent Screen VI

Sponsored by Women and Film History, an international research network with adherents in more than 70 Universities, the Women and the Silent Screen Conference celebrates the diversity of women’s engagement with silent cinemas across the globe. The historical and theoretical issues include the roles of women as directors, screenwriters, producers, distributors and actors, but also as filmgoers. The sixth conference in the series was held at the Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo of the Universit\ue0 di Bologna