Before The Battle of Algiers: Sartre, Colonialism, Industrial Cinema, and an Unmade Film Luca Peretti September 2017 Sartre at the Movies “I am not afraid of the war in Algeria. I am not afraid of decolonisation” Like many other companies, the national oil company of Italy, ENI, produced a number of films, particularly between the 1950s and the ...
Audiences at the Time of the “Two Churches”: Political Audiences: A Reception History of Early Italian Television, by Damiano Garofalo Luca Peretti July 2016 Book Reviews Damiano Garofalo’s Political Audiences. A reception history of early Italian television is a history of TV consumption in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. Its primary sources are audience’s responses to televi...
Between Poetry and Film: A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film by Joseph Luzzi Luca Peretti June 2015 Book Reviews Joseph Luzzi’s A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film is a dense and layered book that focuses on different aspects of post-war Italian cinema, spanning from neorealism to films as recent as Le ...
