Intellect is delighted to announce the new issue of Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 3.3, 2015. This issue features articles, interviews, film reviews and book reviews on transmedia and social media.

Articles

Valentina Re

Online film circulation, copyright enforcement and the access to culture: The Italian case

This article aims to provide an insight into film circulation in the digital environment, and into the multiple ways in which the Internet can affect and especially undermine the traditional system of film distribution.

Paolo Sigismondi

The Winx Club phenomenon in the global animation landscape

This article analyses the global rise of the Italian animated franchise the Winx Club within the flows and contra-flows of entertainment content crossing the globe.

Emiliano Treré and Veronica Barassi

Net-authoritarianism? How web ideologies reinforce political hierarchies in the Italian 5 Star Movement

This article responds to current critiques about the myths of digital democracy drawing on the case study of the Italian Movimento 5 Stelle/5 Star Movement (5SM) lead by comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo.

Lorenzo Coretti & Daniele Pica

The Purple Movement: How Facebook's design undermined the anti-Berlusconi protest in Italy

This article assesses the intrinsic relationship between the use of Facebook and the develop­ment of social movements by focusing on the case study of the Italian movement Popolo Viola/Purple People and its organizational structure.

Claudia Capelli

From documentary truth to historical evidence: The images of the Genoa G8 protests and the construction of public memory

This article looks at the process of construction of a national memory of the 2001 Genoa G8 Summit Conference in Italy through the analysis of the audio-visual documentation of the event and of the meanings and forms it has acquired over the years.

Andrea Puca

Comedy Neapolitan style: The cinema of Massimo Troisi
Neapolitan actor and director Massimo Troisi left behind an impressive body of work before his untimely death. The following article is thus an attempt to revive Troisi's place in film history.

Multimedia media essay

Maurizio Viano: Rome Open City and new pedagogical horizons: a founding text of Italian cinema testifies to another founding

Interviews:

Ellen Nerenberg
Wesleyan University
Co-creativity, cadences and collaborations: An interview with Roberto Perpignani o Perpignani
Ellen Nerenberg interviews Roberto Perpignani who is a renowned Italian film editor.

Giovanna De Luca

Into Paradiso and Mozzarella Stories: Comedy, Mafia and immigration – an interview with Paola Randi and Edoardo De Angelis

In this interview Randi and De Angelis talk about how they treated the issue of immigration, its impact on Italian society and its interaction with the Mafia.

Stefano Bona
Italian–Chinese film co-productions: an interview with Andrea Cicini (ANICA)

In this interview, Stefano Bona speaks with Andrea Cicini, the China Representative of ANICA (the Italian Cinema Industry Association).

Artist'sCorner

A self-conscious search for the image within: The independent films of Anthony Cristiano
This articles discusses and analyses the films of Anthony Cristiano, a Canadian film director and media scholar.

Film Reviews:

Review of student films from the Scuola Nazionale in Rome and the University of Bologna, 2013. Reviewed by Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University

This review brings together for consideration films made by the students of the Class of 2012 earning their diploma triennale at the Scuola Nazionale; students studying for the laurea triennale at DAMS, at the University of Bologna; and students from Bologna's laurea magistrale in Cinema, Television, e Multimedial Production, also at DAMS.

Experimentations in modern media into the twenty-first century and Bongiò's Cilindro Raku: Numera Una and Backstage

This review explores the work of contemporary video and multimedia Italian artist, 1AmuLtimediA.

Book reviews:

Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film, Hava Aldouby (2013)

In this review, Millicent Marcus explores how Hava Aldouby has undertaken the daunting challenge of adding a new chapter to the voluminous, and seemingly exhaustive, scholarship on Federico Fellini.

Sergio Leone: Il cinema come favola politica, Christian Uva (2013)

In this review, Peter Bondanella discusses Leone's work and how it builds upon the fundamental critical works that already exist and even goes on to state that it deserves translation into English reach as wide an audience as possible.

The Transatlantic Gaze. Italian Cinema, American Film, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan (2014)

Fulvio Orsitto examines in this review how Mary Ann McDonald Carolan examines the deep connection between the Italian and the American film cultures in a series of comparative essays and argues that this provides the reader with insightful close readings of selected Italian and American films.

The Dragon and the Dazzle: Models, Strategies, and Identities of Japanese Imagination: A European Perspective.

Pedro Moura argues in this review that this book is a monumental sociological study of the European reception of Japanese popular culture, especially throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Masculinity and Italian Cinema. Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s

Sergio Rigoletto's book, Masculinity and Italian Cinema, is an examination of how Italian cinema of the 1970s responded to sexual liberation and feminism within its representations of masculinity ad argues that the book's examination of the cinema is academically sound.

Inspiring Fellini: Literary Collaborations behind the Scenes

MaoHui Deng argues that the book creatively combines detailed archival research and analysis of Fellini's dream diary and focuses on in-depth studies of various movements in Fellini's oeuvre.

Flavia Laviosa
Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian Studies & Cinema and Media Studies Program
Director, Winter Session Study Abroad in Rome
Faculty Fellow, Madeleine Albright Institute for Global Affairs
Founder & Principal Editor, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies
Certified Trainer and Tester, ACTFL Italian OPI

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