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
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
VForzuti, fusti, maggiorati: la destra, il peplum e una certa idea di maschilità, in G. Albert, G. Carluccio, G. Muggeo, A. Pizzo (eds), Ciao Maschio. Politiche di rappresentazione del corpo maschile nel Novecento, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2019, pp. 135-154.
"Cartoline da un mondo torbido: maschilità, violenza e omosessualità nel cinema italiano del dopoguerra", Genesis, a. XVIII, n. 2, 2019, pp. 127-143.
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. 187-199.
BOOKS
Omosessualità e cinema italiano. Dalla caduta del fascismo agli anni di piombo, UTET, Torino 2019.
INTERVIEWS
Interview on the website letture.org about the book Homosexuality and Italian Cinema (October 2019) B
Interview given to A. Marelli on the book Homosexuality and Italian Cinema, (A. Marelli, "Un gioco di specchi", Film TV, a. XXVIII, n. 10, 10 March 2020, p. 13).
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FORTHCOMING
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
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 2020.
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.
"What's Queer About Italian Cinema? Looking for Non-normative Representations from the Silent Era to the 1960s. Introductory conversation", a round table with Richard Dyer, Rosalind Galt, Mauro Giori, and Karl Schoonover, Immagine, Fall 2020.