Publications

Recent and Forthcoming Essays:

“Atrocità fuori campo: La Guerra Italo-Turca vista dall’America, 1911-1912,” in Sila Berruti, Luca Mazzei, and Maria Assunta Pimpinelli eds., La guerra, da vicino. Cinema, fotografia ed altri media nella Campagna di Libia 1911-’12 (Rome: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale, 2017).

“Silent Italian Cinema,” in Frank Burke ed., A Companion to Italian Cinema (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).

“The Italian (1915)” included in the Library of Congress’ National Film Preservation – National Film Registry Listing (2015) – Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles, 2017.

“Manipulation and Authenticity: The Unassimilable Valentino in 1920s Argentina,” in Rielle Navitski and Nicholas Poppe eds., Cosmopolitan Images: The Transnational Horizons of Latin American Film Culture, 1896-1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016)

“‘Quando la realtà cammina più rapida della fantasia:‘ Italian Cinema and World War I,” in Graziella Parati ed., Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield/Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016), 67-85.

“Off-Screen Atrocities: Newsreels and Epics of Heroism of the Italian-Turkish War on American Screens, 1911-1912,” Early Popular Visual Culture 14: 2 (2016): 1-23. Special Issue on “Cross-National Encounters.”

“Cesare Zavattini: Above and Beyond Neorealism” (with Courtney Ritter), Cinema Journal 54, no.3 (Spring 2015): 54-64, introductory essay and translation of three Zavattini writings on painting, television and “free newsreels.”

“The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema,” in Alan Wright, ed., Cine Tectonica: Film on the Faultine (Bristol: Intellect, 2015), first published in Italian Culture 30: 1 (March 2012): 37-49.

“Sovereign Consumption: Italian Americans‘ Film Culture in 1920s New York City,” in Simone Cinotto ed., Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 83-99; 270-273.

“Sovereign Consumption: Italian Americans‘ Film Culture in 1920s New York City, ” in Simone Cinotto ed., Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), 83-99; 270-273.  The volume won the 2015 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer of the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association

“Film, National Cinema, and Migration,” in Immanuel Ness and Marlou Schrover eds., Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), III: 1504-1509.

Recent Books:

Emir Kusturica (University of Illinois Press, 2015)

Winner, Robert K. Martin Best Book Prize (2010; Canadian Association for American Studies)

Finalist Mention, Lora Romero Prize/First Book Award (2010; American Studies Association)

Short List Mention, Modernist Studies  Association 2010 Book Award