“Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor”, edited by Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2021. – Discussion edited by Lorenzo Marmo

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https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9545

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Industrial cinema, Industrial film, industrial literature, useful cinema, Utility film, economic boom, precarity, labor, industrial labor, narrative cinema, sponsored films, Italian cinema, industrial culture, sponsored culture

Abstract

~ Federico Pierotti ~
Hard Labor. Italian cinema and industrialization
The contribution consists of a review of the book Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor, edited by Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo, a volume of the series Italian Modernities, curated by Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2021).

~ Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici ~
Themes and Ideologemes of Industry in Economic Boom and Precarious Jobs Eras. Starting from Baghetti, Carter, and Marmo’s Italian Industrial Literature and Film
Taking its cue from the volume Italian Industrial Literature and Film, edited by Baghetti, Carter and Marmo, the essay aims at reflecting on the connections between the literature of Italian industrial era (from the 1950s to the 1970s), contemporary writings on the issue of precarity, and the literary output from the decades in-between.

~ Lorenzo Marmo ~
At the margins of the surface. Reflections for the study of industrial labor in Italian cinema
The contribution answers to the critical readings of the volume Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor offered by Federico Pierotti e Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici. It also tries to map possible lines of development of the interdisciplinary and transmedia debate on the topic.

~ Jim Carter ~
From Industrial Culture to Sponsored Culture, or the Persistance of a Suspicion
This contribution responds to Carlo Tirinanzi de Medici’s and Federico Pierotti’s reviews of the book Italian Industrial Literature and Film. It focuses on the distinction between industrial culture and sponsored culture.

 

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Author Biographies

Federico Pierotti, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens - France

Federico Pierotti is a full professor of film studies at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens (France). His work mainly focused on cinema and visual culture; the aesthetics, technology, and history of color in cinema; post-war Italian cinema; industrial cinema and utility films; modern and contemporary Portuguese cinema. He is the author of books on color (including La Couleur: une passion cinématographique, Classiques Garnier, 2020) and on Portuguese cinema (Diorama lusitano, Mimesis, 2018). He is a member of the scientific committees of the journals L’Avventura - International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes (Il Mulino) and Immagine - Note di Storia del Cinema (Persiani). He was a visiting researcher at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (2016) and a visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2020) and at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (2017).

Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici, University of Pisa

Carlo Tirinanzi De Medici is fixed-term lecturer in Literary Criticism and Comparative literature at Pisa University. After studies in Italy and France he worked at Trento University and Turin University in Italy and has been Visiting Scholar at Brown University (Providence, Usa). His main research topics are history and theory of the novel. He published the books Il vero e il convenzionale (2012) and Il romanzo italiano contemporaneo. Dalla fine degli anni Settanta a oggi (2018, third place in the Under 40 section of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize).

Lorenzo Marmo, Universitas Mercatorum – University of the System of the Italian Chambers of Commerce,

Lorenzo Marmo is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Universitas Mercatorum, and he also teaches film at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. He obtained his PhD from Roma Tre University in 2014, with a dissertation on cinema, photography, and urban space in the first half of the Twentieth Century. In 2017 he was Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, with a project on cinema and urban culture in postwar Italy. He is the author of Roma e il cinema del dopoguerra. Neorealismo melodramma noir (Bulzoni 2018). He is also co-editor, with Ilaria A. De Pascalis, of the n. 20 dossier of the journal «Imago. Studi di cinema e media» dedicated to the surfaces, boundaries and formats of contemporary images, and with Carlo Baghetti and Jim Carter of the volume Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor (Peter Lang 2021).

Jim Carter, Boston University

Jim Carter is Lecturer in Italian and Associate Director of the program in cinema and media studies at Boston University. He collaborates with international journals, including Modern Italy, Italian Culture, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and Italian Studies. He is the co-curator of the volume Italian Industrial Literature and Film (Peter Lang, 2021) and author of a book about Olivetti culture (in progress). In 2018-2019 he won the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

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2022-11-28

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Pierotti, F., Tirinanzi De Medici, C., Marmo, L., & Carter, J. (2022). “Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor”, edited by Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2021. – Discussion edited by Lorenzo Marmo. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (6), 348–385. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i6.9545

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No. 6 (2022): Like a Prayer. Forms of the Religiousness and the Sacred in Contemporary Writings and Arts (1990-2020)

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