Author Luca Peretti

“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 ...

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...

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 ...