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June 4, 2013 at 11:36 am · Filed under Info
gender/sexuality/italy
gender/sexuality/italy (g/s/i) is an online annual, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on gendered identities and the ways they intersect with and produce Italian politics, culture, and society by way of a variety of cultural productions, discourses, and practices spanning historical, social, and geopolitical boundaries. g/s/i seeks contributions that investigate constructions of femininity and masculinity as well as configurations of sexual orientation and critiques of hetero-normativity in Italian culture from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. g/s/i welcomes postfeminist discussions of the historical and political contexts of feminism and sexual difference as conditioned by postcolonialism, postmodernism, and the commodification of culture and politics in their effects on daily life. Given the scope of its interests, the journal embraces a variety of disciplinary perspectives including but not limited to the inter-related fields of Italian studies, gender studies, film and media studies, performance studies, LGBT and queer studies, history, sociology, visual culture, animal studies, history of science, among others.
A Very Seductive Body Politic: Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema
Mimesis International – Italian Frame series
This volume maps the narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The book delineates a comprehensive cinematic corpus and focuses on a selection of narrative and documentary films, from the proto-Berlusconi everyman of La più bella serata della mia vita (The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life, 1972) by Ettore Scola, to the Berlusconi pretext for political self-reflection of Arance e martello (Oranges and Hammer, 2014) by Diego Bianchi.
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Body of State: The Moro Affair, A Nation Divided
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Body of State offers a translation of Marco Baliani’s acclaimed dramatic monologue, Corpo di stato, concerning the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist Red Brigades. Corpo di stato was commissioned by Italian state television in 1998 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the “Moro Affair.” Co-translated and co-edited with Ellen Nerenberg and Thomas Simpson.
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Set the Stage! Teaching Italian through Theater
Yale University Press
Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater tradition into the curriculum. Co-edited with Colleen Ryan.
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Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theatre
Cambridge Scholars Publishers
Dramatic Interactions is a collection of essays on the flourishing and interdisciplinary subject of teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With rich examples from a variety of commonly and less commonly taught languages, this book affirms both the relevance and effectiveness of using theater for foreign language learning in the most comprehensive sense of the term. It includes innovative approaches to specific theatrical texts and addresses numerous aspects of foreign language learning. Co-edited with Colleen Ryan.
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June 4, 2013 at 11:10 am · Filed under Info
Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi, regista. Videosaggio
A video-essay that Marini-Maio created from her interview with acclaimed filmmaker Alina Marazzi in New York City on March 17, 2018. The interview is presented in alternate editing with clips from Marazzi’s experimental non-fiction films Un’ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose, and her stylistically hybrid theatrical feature Tutto parla di te. The goal of the video-essay is to unpack, in conversation with the filmmaker, the discourse of maternity that is constructed in the films’ narratives revolving around both historical and fictional mothers. With Alina Marazzi. Ideated, produced and directed by Nicoletta Marini-Maio; camera and sound by Costanza Maio; edited by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, and Costanza Maio.
Winx’ Transformations and Saints’ Ecstasies
This side-by-side montage is related to the article titled “The ‘Angelification’ of Girls: Winx Club as a Neoliberal-Catholic Project” by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Ellen Nerenberg. The article, currently under review for publication, explores the transmedial, transnational text which we refer to as “the Winx Project.” The Winx Project targets female tweens and teens and consists of 182 episodes (and still counting) of an animated television series for children and tweens, Winx Club (Iginio Straffi, Rainbow, Loreto, Italy), which premiered in Italy in 2004 and is broadcast globally in 150 countries; several feature films; a spin-off commissioned by Netflix US, WOW–World of Winx, as well as tie-in merchandise. Transformation is the indisputable focus and visual anchor of each episode as the individual fairies transform into angelic superheroes, each endowed with super powers. The video attempts to show how structural similarities proliferate between the religious ecstasy of the saints, the assumption of the virgin, and the Winx’ transformation.
Journeys
This is a short experimental documentary featuring two young women coping with their inner and external journeys. Both girls travel abroad for an extended period of time and have similarly contradictory experiences in intellectual and emotional terms.
From Counter to Table
A process documentary featuring an Italian native couple preparing a dish of parmesan eggplants. While it focuses on the process–including shopping, preparation of ingredients, cooking, choice of wine, and table decoration–it also emphasizes the couple’s cultural heritage and closeness. It has a comedic touch.
Coming of Age
This is a palindrome silent short-film featuring a boy’s and a girl’s ambivalent feelings towards their coming of age in our society-imposed ideas of masculinity and femininity.
June 4, 2013 at 11:08 am · Filed under Info
Plot Me No Plots: Theatre in University Language Teaching
International seminar on the role of theater in university second language education. Keynote speaker. Padova, October 14-15, 2011.
Postfeminisms? Culture and Politics of Gender in the Age of Berlusconi
International conference. Co-organizer, chair, and speaker. Graduate School for the Humanities (University of Bologna) and Italian Women’s Library, Bologna, Italy, June 7-9, 2012.
Interview for the Italian Women’s Library
Interview on the conference on Postfeminism, in Italian. Held by Annamaria Tagliavini, Director of the Italian Women Library, Bologna, Italy, June 6, 2012.
The Role of Theater in Contemporary Italy: A Conversation with Director Romeo Castellucci
Media coverage of the the event
Presentation on Romeo Castellucci’s works, background, and context. Q&A session with the Director. Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, February 14, 2013.
Cinema all’italiana: Presentation on Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino
America-Italy Society, Philadelphia, PA, May 23, 2013.
A Very Seductive Body Politic: Berlusconi in Cinema
Talk for the Studies in Modern Italy, the University Seminars. Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York, USA, March 14, 2014.
CALL Me++: Evolving Spaces and the Multilingual, Networked Self.
Keynote speaker at the Annual Conference on Italian Language and Culture. Georgetown University. Washington, DC, October 24, 2015.
Mediterranean Migration Mosaic 2016
Co-instructor and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary, multi-lingual, field-research course on migrations to and from Italy, with an emphasis on recent (im)migrations to Italy from Africa. Dickinson College, Carlisle and Italy. January-May 2016.
Specters Are Haunting Italy: Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte.
Cosmopolitan Club of Philadelphia. June 7, 2016.
The Decolonizing Potential of Collaborative Research and the Winx Club Project.
Keynote speaker, with Ellen Nerenberg, at “Shaping the future,” The Languages Graduate Student Association at the Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages of the University of Connecticut. October 27-28, 2017.
WinxClub, or the “Angelification” of Girls: A Neoliberal-Catholic Project.
Speaker, with Ellen Nerenberg, at “Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms: Italian Interventions on the Body,” Calandra Italian American Institute. April 27-28, 2018.
Mediating Italy in Global Culture – Summer School
Co-orgainzer and Instructor of the graduate school on Italian film and media culture at the University of Bologna, Italy. June 18-23, 2018.
Social Catholicism as Pastoral Edutainment: Vocations, Avocations, and the Winx Club. Speaker, with Ellen Nerenberg. Columbia University Seminars, Studies in Modern Italy Series. The Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 12, 2018.
Seminar on the State of Italian Studies in American Higher Education.
Invited lecture for the seminar organized by the Center for Italian Studies of the University of Pennsylvania. November 10, 2018.
A Specter Is Haunting Italy: Representations of the Moro Affair in Film and Theater. Invited lecture for the Italian Speakers Series, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, April 12, 2019.
Mediating Italy in Global Culture – Summer School
Instructor of the graduate school on Italian film and media culture at the University of Bologna, Italy. June 17-22, 2019.
Interview on Nicoletta Marini-Maio’s and Ellen Nerenberg’s scholarly research on Winx Club for Mediating Italy in Global Culture – Summer School. University of. Bologna, Italy. June 22, 2019.
June 4, 2013 at 11:00 am · Filed under Info
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Ph.D.
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