In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly […]
Fernando Pessoa. A quasi memoir
Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded […]
The battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers is a figure for liberation and it can still communicate a sense of euphoria to those who experience and study it. […]
Cinéma&Cie 31: To Each Their Own Pop. The Mediatization of Popular Music in Europe (1960-1979)
Pop music meets the media… This issue is dedicated to a social and cultural phenomenon that we could call the ‘mediatization of pop music’. With […]
A History of Cinema Without Names/3. New Research Paths and Methodological Glosses
Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi sul Cinema Università degli Studi di Udine Monica Dall’Asta, Guglielmo Pescatore, Leonardo Quaresima, a cura di, Il colore nel […]
Original Sins. Globalization, Populism and the Six Contradictions Facing the European Union
The revolt of the voters that exploded in 2016 represents a reaction to the effects of financial globalization, with economic discontent driving heightened political and […]
The Phallus and the Mask. The Patriarchal Unconscious of Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysts of all schools have generally dismissed and sometimes openly disapproved feminism and its critique of male universalism. While other disciplines, like sociology and anthropology, […]
Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism. A Sociological Essay: On Avant-Garde Art And Society
The first Manifesto of Futurism was published on Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avantgarde movement in art, with […]
The Size Effect. A Journey into Design, Fashion and Media
At the end of the last century, the so-called “new technologies” started to question the process of design, production, sales and consumption through a radical […]