Author Giacomo Boitani

Giacomo Boitani

Born in Rome in 1981, Giacomo Boitani is a Film Studies scholar who was awarded in 2012 a Ph.D. by the National University of Ireland, Galway for his research on the relationship between Italian post-war neorealism and the Economic Miracle genre known as ‘comedy Italian style’. His articles on Italian cinema have appeared in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media and in the Cultural Studies journal Status Quaestionis. His work on Mario Monicelli’s comedy La Grande Guerra (1959) has been published in Patrizia Piredda’s edited collection The Great War in Italy: Representation and Interpretation.

Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory by Giacomo Lichtner

Giacomo Boitani

September 2013

Book Reviews

Postwar neorealism is often and rightfully framed as the cinematic phenomenon that shaped the course of Italian film for the rest of the 20th century; it is not a coincidence that some of the major academic stu...