Publications and Resources
Monograph
The Battle of Algiers (Mimesis International, 2019).
See here for the introductory chapter of the book.
Videoessays
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16:9 filmtidsskrift/film journal, 2019
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[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies , 2019
Articles and book chapters
- ‘Towards an Ecology of Cinema and History’, The Italianist, 34: 2 (2014), 250-55
- ‘Of Shite and Time’ (with material on Bakhtin and The Battle of Algiers), The Italianist, 35: 2 (2015), 294-99
- ‘Cinema, storia, Italia. Appunti per una ricerca in espansione’, Studi culturali, 7: 2 (2015), pp. 265-284. The original English version of this article can be read here.
- ‘Towards World Heritage Cinema (Starting from the Negative)’, in Screening European Heritage: Creating and Consuming history of Film, ed. by Paul Cooke and Rob Stone (Palgrave 2016), pp. 63-84
- ‘The Battle of Algiers at Fifty: End of Empire Cinema and the First Banlieue Film’, Film Quarterly, 70: 2 (2016), pp. 17–29
- ‘Spaces and Times in The Battle of Algiers‘, insert with DVD/Blu-ray release of new restoration of the film from Cult Films, 2018
- ‘History and memory in Italian cinema: a virtual roundtable‘, with Robert gordon, Giuliana Minghelli and Alan O’Leary, Modern Italy 22:2, 213-223
Journal Special Issue
Focusing on Italy as a case study that is both emblematic and anomalous, the articles in this special issue investigate how Italy’s cinema has contributed and responded to the nation’s struggle to construct a shared narrative of its modern history. The Italian case can be seen on the one hand as emblematic because much Italian cinema has made effective and widespread use of stereotype to construct sanitised and homogeneous narratives of national identity. On the other hand, it can be seen as anomalous because within that narrative coexist multiple and often contradictory strands. In other words, while every nation’s history is contested, Italy’s inability to weave from these strands a nuanced collective narrative of its recent past suggests that the peculiarity of Italian ‘memory’ lies in the coexistence of ‘divided memories’ (Foot, 2009). Italian cinema, we argue, reflects and contributes to precisely this duality – or, at least, to the perception of such a duality.
Interviews
- ‘The Sensual Encounter of Words, Images and Sounds’—A Conversation with Robert Burgoyne on the Historical Film
- Cultural Capital, Cultural Afterlives: A Conversation with Historian Simon Ball
- Boys on Film: A Conversation with Catherine O’Rawe on Italian Cinema, Masculinities and History
Workshops and meetings for the project ‘The Case of Italian Cinema 1911-2010’
- Workshop 1, Cambridge, 28 February 2013
- Workshop 2, Bristol, 24 April 2013
- Project meeting, Cambridge, 13 June 2014
- Impact workshop, 22 January 2015
- Non-academic partner workshop, 7 July 2015
- International Workshop, Leeds, 22-23 March 2016
Conference Panels
- Panel at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SMCS) conference, Montreal, March 25-29, 2015. See here for panel details and abstracts.
- Five panels at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference (AAIS), Zurich, May 2014. See here for a GoogleDoc with paper and panel details.
Teaching