Valerio ColadonatoSapienza University of Rome | la sapienza
Valerio Coladonato
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Introduction
I am an assistant professor in Film and Media Studies at Sapienza, University of Rome. I have coordinated seminars at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and have published articles in Italian and international journals ("The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies", "Cinéma et Cie", "Communications", among others). My research focuses on the exchanges between Italian and French cinemas in an industrial and cultural perspective.
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The First Lady and the Princess. The uses of luxury by Eva Perón and Diana Spencer, between style and politics
The paper traces and compares the uses of luxury in the public images of Eva Perón and Diana Spencer. The profound interpersonal connections that these two historical figures generated by means of their appeal to “the people” is interprete...
Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, the Cannes Film Festival contributed to the rise of Federico Fellini’s image as an internationally acclaimed Italian auteur . This article situates the relationship between the director and the festival within the respective cultural, industrial and historical contexts. First, it discusses the role of festiv...
https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1577969
Nanni Moretti in Francia: Modelli industriali e culturali del successo di un autore italiano all’esteroGli ultimi quattro film prodotti e diretti da Nanni Moretti ‒ La stanza del figlio (2001), Il caimano (2006), Habemus papam (2011), Mia madre (2016) ‒ si sono tutti classificati nella top 20 dei film italiani più visti nelle sale cinematografiche...
In the years between the end of the Second World War and 1968, Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) (Rossellini, 1945) became a key point of reference in a number of French cultural, aesthetic and political debates. This article analyses the film’s reception across popular audiences and cultured elites, making use of historical sources beyond specia...
https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1577994
Authors: Valerio Coladonato; Paolo Noto
https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1578098
This is an introduction to the special issue, 'Be Your Selfie: Identity, Aesthetics and Power in Digital Self-Representation', edited by Laura Busetta and Valerio Coladonato
This article shows the utility of the concept of hegemony in grasping the political stakes involved in stardom, with specific attention to issues of gender. In the field of star studies, the use of this concept occurs in relation to three types of questions : 1. What is the political value of identification with a star ? 2. What link can be establi...
The concept of ‘whiteness’ has acquired a central role in race studies. The historical process through which the Italian-American community became ‘white’ is a relevant case study for showing the constructedness of this category and the power relations that underpin it. This paper focuses on the role played by early cinematic melodrama in light of...
https://comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-articolo_digital/valerio-coladonato/power-gender-and-the-selfie-the-cases-of-hillary-clinton-barack-obama-pope-francis-001200_2014_0003_0394-252093.html
http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/321/
The declining sovereignity of nation-states intensifies the symbolic functions performed by physical borders. The frontier between Mexico and the U.S. is one of these ideologically charged places: it plays a defining role in national identities and narratives, and contributes to their hybridization. Nevertheless, in films involving a partnership be...
