Publications
Books
Chapters in books, and journal articles
- 'The Uses of Children' in Danielle Hipkins (ed): The Child in Italian Cinema (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2012)
- 'Building a Constituency: Italian Cinema in the Context of the Internet' in Frank Burke (ed): A Companion to Italian Cinema (BFI, forthcoming 2012/13)
- 'Italian genres and Mario Bava's films' in Peter Bondanella (ed): The Italian Cinema Book (BFI, forthcoming 2012)
- ‘Delivering the Quality Experience: Franco Zeffirelli’ in Laura Hubner (ed): Valuing Films:Shifting Perceptions of Worth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- ‘Lipstick and chocolate: The Consequences of Love’ in Dana Renga (ed): Mafia Movies (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
- ‘Chiaroscuro: The half-glimpsed femme fatale of Italian film noir’ in Catherine O’Rawe & Helen Hanson (eds): The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
- ‘Navigating the Labyrinth: Cinematic investigations of right-wing terrorism’ in Ruth Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi & Alan O’Leary (eds): Terrorism Italian Style (IGRS, 2010)
- ‘Intervista-interview-insight: On the usefulness of interviews’, The Italianist, vol 29, n 2, 2009
- ‘Italian film studies: A two-pronged approach’, Italian Studies Special Issue: Thinking Italian film, v 63, n 2, Autumn 2008, 274-7
- ‘The Dark Side of the Mediterranean: Italian Noir’ in Andrew Spicer (ed): European Film Noir (Manchester University Press), 2007.
- ‘Francesco Rosi’ in Angela Barwig & Thomas Stauder (eds), Intelletuali italiani fra il dopoguerra e l’inizio del ventunesimo secolo: Saggi sulla trasformazione dei rapporti fra cultura e potere, Verlag für deutsch-italienische Studien, 2007).
- ‘Rosi’s Il caso Mattei: Making the Case for Conspiracy’ in Stephen Gundle & Lucia Rinaldi (eds): Assassination and Murder in Twentieth-Century Italy (Palgrave, 2007).
- ‘From Bust to Boom: Women and Representations of Prosperity in Italian Popular Cinema, 1946-1960’ in Penny Morris (ed): Women in Italy 1946-1960, (Palgrave, 2006).
- ‘The turbulent movement of forms: Rosi’s postmodern Carmen’, in Ann Davies & Chris Perriam (eds), Carmen: From silent cinema to MTV, (Rodopi, 2005).
- ‘Un film noir italiano: Le mani sulla città di Francesco Rosi’ in Cinemacittà, Yr 1, nos 1-4, a monograph celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of Rosi’s film, edited by Enrico Costa, (Gangemi Editore, Università di Reggio Calabria, 2005)
- ‘Pink Neorealism’ and the Rehearsal of Gender Roles in Italy, 1946-1955’ in Phil Powrie, Ann Davies & Bruce Babington (eds): The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema, (Wallflower Press 2004).
- ‘Clandestini: the ‘Other’ hiding in the Italian Body Politic’ in Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas & Guido Rings (eds): European Cinema: Inside Out (Universitätsverlag C. Winter, Heidelberg, 2003).
- ‘Revealing the Hidden City: The Cinematic Conspiracy Thriller of the 1970s’, The Italianist, n 23, 2003.
- ‘Bertolucci’ in Yvonne Tasker (ed): Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers (Routledge, 2002).
- ‘Woman of Rome: Anna Magnani’ in Ulrike Sieglohr (ed): Heroines Without Heroes: Female Identities in Post-War European Cinema 1945-1951, (Cassell, 2000).
- ‘The City in Italian Cinema: Rome’, Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, No 8, 2000.
- ‘Cultural Space as Political Metaphor: The Case of the European ‘Quality’ Film’, 2000
- ‘Cinema, Identity, History, an International Conference, University of East Anglia, July 1998’, Screen, v 40, n 1, 1999.
- ‘Francesco Rosi: Heightened Realism’ in John Boorman & Walter Donohue (eds): Projections 8 (Faber & Faber, 1998).
- ‘Pirandello and Pirandellism in Film’, Pirandello Studies, 18, 1998.
- ‘Storie semplici: Sciascia e il cinema’ in M Picone (ed): Sciascia, scrittore europeo (Birkhäuser/Universität Zürich, 1994).
- ‘Simple Stories: Adapting Sciascia for the Screen’, The Italianist, no 14, 1994.
- ‘Images from the Southern Front: the Mezzogiorno in the Cinema of Francesco Rosi’, The Italianist Special Supplement on Southern Italy, 1994.
Reviews
Reviews have been published in Modern Italy, European History Quarterly, Media Culture and Society, and Rotterdam Film Festival The Daily Tiger.
