HomeSenior Lecturer in Film
Room: 1.10
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8291.
Email: p.p.small@qmul.ac.uk
Teaching:
Italian, European and Hollywood cinema.
Research interests:
Stardom in 1950s Italy; Contemporary Italian cinema.
Forthcoming:
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Sophia Loren: moulding the star (Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, June 2009)
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‘The films of Emanuele Crialese’ in Italian Film Directors in the New Millenium edited by W. Hope (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
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Further to my 2005 publication on Giordana’s I cento passi (see below), I am at present writing an article on two more recent Italian Mafia films, The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino, 2004) and Gomorrah (Garrone, 2008).
Publications:
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'Gianni Amelio's Il ladro di bambini : recalling the image' in Italian Studies LIII 1998, 150-166.
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Desperately Seeking Delia: Mario Martone's L'amore molesto ' in The Italianist 19 1999, 298-317.
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'Constructing identity in Neapolitan cinema' in JIRS 8 2000, 195-210.
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'Immigrant images in contemporary Italian cinema' chapter in Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory edited by D. Duncan and J. Andall (Peter Lang, 2004), 239-254.
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'Representing the Female: Rural Idylls, Urban Nightmares' chapter in New Directions in Italian Cinema edited by W.Hope (Peter Lang, 2005), 151-174.
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'Giordana's I cento passi: renegotiating the Mafia codes' in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film Vol.3 No.1 - 2005, 41-54.
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‘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
