Research
Publications
Two book chapters forthcoming in 2013:
'The maggiorata fisica or sweater girl: Mangano,Lollobrigida, Loren' in The Italian Cinema Book, edited by Peter Bondanella (London: BFI, 2013).
'Producer and Director? or, 'authorship' in 1950s Italian cinema' in Beyond the Bottom-Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies edited by Andrew Spicer and Christopher Meir (New York: Continuum, 2013)
Monograph: Sophia Loren: moulding the star (Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, June 2009)
Articles in refereed journals:
'Industry, co-production and agency: Gina Lollobrigida in documents' The Italianist 32 (2012) 191-203
'No Way Out: Set Design in Mafia Films' in Italian Studies, 66:1 (March 2011) pp. 112-127.
'The new Italian film history', The Italianist 30 (2010) 272-289
'Giordana's I cento passi: renegotiating the Mafia codes' in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film Vol.3 No.1 - 2005, 41-54.
'Constructing identity in Neapolitan cinema' in JIRS 8 2000, 195-210.
'Desperately Seeking Delia: Mario Martone's L'amore molesto ' in The Italianist 19 (1999), 298-317.
'Gianni Amelio's Il ladro di bambini : recalling the image' in Italian Studies LIII 1998, 150-166.
Chapters in edited books:
'Crossing Continents in the Cinema of Emanuele Crialese' in Italian Film Directors in the New Millenium edited by W. Hope (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 89-103
'Italy on Screen and Italian film studies' in Italy on Screen edited by L. Bolton and C. Siggers-Manson (Berne: Peter Lang, 2010) pp. 203-210
'Deneuve's Italian interludes' in From Perversion to Purity: the stardom of Catherine Deneuve edited by L. Downing and S. Harris (Manchester University Press: 2007) pp. 57-74
'Representing the Female: Rural Idylls, Urban Nightmares' chapter in New Directions in Italian Cinema edited by W.Hope (Peter Lang, 2005), 151-174
'Immigrant images in contemporary Italian cinema' chapter in Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory edited by D. Duncan and J. Andall (Peter Lang, 2005)