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Number 15 Year 2019

22 articles in this issue 

Gabriele Landrini

The epistolary column has always played a fundamental role both in women's and men’s cineromanzi: in these periodicals, many publishers have dedicated numerous pages to the direct confrontation between readers and mysterious advisors. Following an archiva... see more

Pags. 5 - 13  

Marco Zilioli

In 1953 Aldo D’Alfonso edited the volume Mille domande a Vie Nuove. Mille risposte a Vie Nuove, the first collection of letters published in the Communist magazine Vie Nuove concerning the column dedicated to the correspondence, that so called Corrisponde... see more

Pags. 15 - 29  

Jennifer Malvezzi

The essay examines a programmatic letter written by the English neo-futurist group Archigram to the magazine “IN. Arguments of images and design” in 1972. Informed by the theories of Marshall McLuhan and the coeval practices of Guerrilla Television, the l... see more

Pags. 31 - 43  

Gabriele Rigola

This article examines several trends in the Readers’ Letters column of Playmen, the Italian erotic monthly magazine, during the first five years it was published. In particular, the essay aims to investigate the role of the column and readers’ letters in ... see more

Pags. 45 - 53  

Paolo Noto

The goal of this article is to present and comment upon the findings of some preliminary surveys in the archive of Guido Aristarco, and to outline a few operational hypotheses for a research that investigates Italian film criticism as a field of professio... see more

Pags. 55 - 67  

Marta Rocchi

The article is dedicated to American TV series that belong to the medical drama genre. The first part of the work is aimed at providing a brief summary of the evolution of the main features of the genre with respect to settings, protagonists and their rep... see more

Pags. 69 - 84  

Pasquale Fameli

In recent years the work of the Lucchese video artist Marcantonio Lunardi (1968) won several awards at national and international level, also receiving some attention from critics. The complexity of his language, which shows a propensity to combine painti... see more

Pags. 85 - 91  

Stefano Oddi

Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust is the closing chapter of a film tetralogy aimed to explore the devastating effects of power, consisting of Moloch, Taurus and The Sun, focused respectively on Hitler, Lenin and Hirohito, the three major XX-century representation... see more

Pags. 93 - 104  

Virgil Darelli

The essay acknowledges, through an aesthetic perspective, the relationship between training and therapy, meant as a play or work on oneself. Through the analysis of Harun Farocki’s Serious Games, which examines this relation with reference to two virtual ... see more

Pags. 105 - 114  

Alessandro Faccioli

The myth of Frankenstein received little attention from the world of international silent cinema. However, with the transition to sound, it was quickly embraced by the silver screen. This work will examine three specific issues: the voice and the silence ... see more

Pags. 115 - 127  

Emiliano Rossi

Airplanes have emerged as less and less peripheral spaces of cinematic fruition. Inflight entertainment, indeed, is currently perceived as an amenity commonly provided onboard aircrafts. On these assumptions, the essay examines on-the-fly cinema primarily... see more

Pags. 129 - 155  

Valentina Domenici

In the last few years the new television series was considered as an important subject in the field of both Television and Media Studies, which have highlighted its complexity considered as a key concept emphasizing not only on a narrative basis but also ... see more

Pags. 157 - 164