I am Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at University of Milan, where I teach Film history and criticism.
The majority of my research is focused on the cultural history of cinema, with an emphasis on the issues related to sexuality and gender from the postwar period onward. Since my first works on Luchino Visconti, for which I am widely recognized as a leading scholar on this director, I have been combining archival research with philology, film analysis and a reflection on methodology, historiography and inherited academic traditions.
My research interests include censorship, films and politics, film criticism, genetic criticism, film adaptation of literary works, and intertextuality, and my works more or less directly deal with the relationship between institutional figures and forms of power and knowledge, and peripheral, marginal or countercultural forms of production, consumption and interpretation of films.
I am the author of six books, forty articles and more than thirty conference presentations. Most of my articles are freely downloadable from this website.
EDITED BOOKS AND ISSUES
RESEARCH
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
FORTHCOMING
BOOKS
Omosessualità e cinema italiano. Dalla caduta del fascismo agli anni di piombo, UTET, Torino 2019.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Dall’abiura di Pasolini all’Hard-core Art. Sesso dal vero e ideologia nel cinema queer contemporaneo, in C. Maeder, A. Mélan (eds), Culture queer. Les héritiers de Pasolini, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve 2019, pp. 185-197.
L’epica nel cinema moderno e contemporaneo: il caso di Angels in America di Mike Nichols, in F. De Cristofaro (ed.), L’epica dopo il moderno (1945-2015), Pacini, Pisa 2017, pp. 97-114.
VDesiderio e allucinazione. Hollywood secondo Parker Tyler, pioniere della critica cinematografica, introduction to: Parker Tyler, Allucinazione Hollywood, translated and edited by M. Giori, Temi, Trento 2017, pp. 7-39.
INTERVIEWS
Interview on the website letture.org about the book Homosexuality and Italian Cinema B
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Forzuti, fusti, maggiorati: la destra, il peplum e una certa idea di maschilità, in G. Carluccio, A. Pizzo (eds), proceedings of the congress Body Politics. Representing Masculinity in Media and Performing Arts, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino, pp. 125-144.
"Cartoline da un mondo torbido: maschilità, violenza e omosessualità nel cinema italiano del dopoguerra", Genesis, a. XVIII, n. 2, 2019.
Re Luchino e la sua corte. Visconti visto dalla stampa dell’estrema destra laica, in M. De Grassi (ed.), Luchino Visconti oggi: il valore di un’eredità artistica, proceedings of the congress, Edizioni Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste.
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 2020.