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...

Bruno Dumont's Bodies

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Turning X in an XXY World: The 10th Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

Defining the Cinematic Essay: The Essay Film by Elizabeth A. Papazian & Caroline Eades, and Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter & Timothy Corrigan

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland – Luchino Visconti and White Nights

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Winterbottom, Michael

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

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