Giorgio Bertellini
Italian-American media historian
Giorgio Bertellini an Italian-American media historian who specializes in the ways national and racial diversity informed American cinema's representation of citizenship, stardom, and leadership during the era of migrations , fascism , and World War II . He is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan .[1]
Life
Born in Mantua , Italy , Bertellini studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and earned his Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts . He moved to the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , in 2001 as a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows [2] and is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the same institution with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Romance Languages. He was the Sargent-Faull Fellow [3] at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007-08) and a Tiro a Segno Fellow [4] in New York University's Italian Studies department.
Recognition
His work twice received the American Association of Italian Studies [5] book award for film and media (2010 and 2020). His other book awards include the Robert K. Martin Best Book Prize (Canadian Association for American Studies,[6] 2010), the Peter C. Rollins Book Award (Southwest Popular and American Culture Association,[7] 2015), the IASA Book Award (Italian American Studies Association,[8] 2020), and the Premio Internazionale di Letteratura Città di Como,[9] 2023). His work has been supported by the American Philosophical Association , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies . In 2022 , he was selected as one of 180 Guggenheim fellows , a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation -sponsored scholarship.[10]
Works
The Cinema of Italy. Wallflower Press, 2004/2007. [11] .ISBN 978-1903364994
Early Cinema and the 'National': Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor. (Co-edited with Richard Abel and Rob King). John Libbey Publishing, 2008. ASIN B01E9Z1P71
Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press , 2009.[12] [13] [14] [15] ASIN B01FEL7QSI
Emir Kusturica (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press , 2015. ASIN B00JMOLQMG Milan: Editrice Il Castoro, 1996. ISBN 88-8033-072-1 ; 2nd expanded ed., 2001 ISBN 978-8880330721 ; English Edition: Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.[16] ASIN B00JMOLQMG ; Romanian Edition: Bucharest: IBU Publishing, 2017.
Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader. John Libbey Publishing, 2013.[17] [18] ASIN 978-0861966707
The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. University of California Press , 2019.[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] ASIN B07MV7Z7RB
Il Divo e il Duce. Fama, politica e pubblicità nell'America degli anni Venti. Florence: Le Monnier , 2022. [25] ISBN 978-8800862936
References
^ "Giorgio Bertellini | U-M LSA Department of Film, Television, and Media" . lsa.umich.edu .
^ "University of Michigan Society of Fellows webpage" .
^ "Giorgio Bertellini's Radcliffe Institute webpage" .
^ "Tiro a Segno Fellowship Information Page" .
^ "American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize Announcements - 2019 entry" .
^ "Canadian Association for American Studies" . Canadian Association for American Studies .
^ "Rollins Book Award | Southwest Popular/American Culture Association" .
^ "IASA Winners - 2020 Book Award List" . Italian American Studies Association .
^ "Premio Internazionale Città di Como - Vincitori X Edizione" .
^ "Giorgio Bertellini, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation page" .
^ Garofalo, Piero (January 1, 2007). "The Cinema of Italy by Giorgio Bertellini, ed. (London: Wallflower Press, 2004)" . Quarterly Review of Film and Video . 24 (1): 92–97. doi :10.1080/10509200500486106 . S2CID 194080582 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
^ "Robert Gordon, "Film History Recut," Times Literary Supplement , July 1, 2011, 28" . .
^ "ROROTOKO : Giorgio Bertellini On his book Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque : Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews" . rorotoko.com .
^ Alovisio, Silvio; Fasce, Ferdinando; Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2014). "QUADERNI STORICI Reviews of IEAC by Silvio Alovisio and Ferdinando Fasce" . Quaderni Storici – via www.academia.edu.
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2010). "Richard Abel's Review of Italy in Early American Cinema (Film History 2010)" . Film History . 22 (3) – via www.academia.edu.
^ "Andrew Horton, Slavic Review , Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 2015): 923-924" . doi :10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923 . JSTOR 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923 . S2CID 165133761 .
^ "Gaetana Marrone, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies , vol.2, no.3 (2014): 445-447" . doi :10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923 . JSTOR 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923 . S2CID 165133761 .
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2017). "Kelsey E. Moore, Film & History, vol.47, no.1 (Summer 2017): 83-84" . Film & History . doi: 10.1386/jicms.2.3.443_5.
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2020). "Piero Garofalo, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies , vol.8, no.1 (2020): 162-165" . The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies . doi: 10.1386/jicms_00014_5
^ Suárez, Nicolás (28 December 2020). "Nicolas Suárez, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in the 1920s," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television , 2020" . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television . 41 (3): 582–584. doi :10.1080/01439685.2020.1865681 . S2CID 234399060 .
^ "Giorgio Bertellini, "When Americans Loved Mussolini—and what it tells us about Donald Trump's rise," Washington Post/Made by History, Feb. 28, 2019" . The Washington Post .
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Intervista per LA LETTURA (Corriere della Sera) 2019_03_10" . La Lettura – via www.academia.edu.
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Review of D/D by Giuliana Muscio, IL MANIFESTO / ALIAS" . Il Manifesto/ALIAS – via www.academia.edu.
^ Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Desmond O'Grady, "Macho men: The links between Valentino and Mussolini," The Sydney Morning Herald , June 14, 2019" . Sydney Morning Herald .
^ "Book information page in Italian" .
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