Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

What the stardom of Mina says about contemporary Italian society. The Many Meanings of Mina explores the fascinating career of Mina, born Anna Maria Mazzini, an Italian popular music icon whose sixty-year career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved popular music stars in Italy and abroad, maintaining a large fan base...

This edited collection explores how Luca Guadagnino's film Call Me by Your Name speaks powerfully to questions of contemporary sexual identity and romance. Adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release. A love story between...

A vivid, engaging, and cross-disciplinary account of women's work in postwar Italy. Women's Work in Post-War Italy explores women's labour following World War II and Italy's new republic. War and national reconstruction have typically been framed as masculine undertakings in Italy. However, Flora Derounian shifts that frame to investigate the labour that Italian women were undertaking during this critical time...