Anna Paparcone

Educational Background

• B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università degli Studi di Cassino (Italy)
• M.A. in Romance Studies, Cornell University
• PH.D. in Romance Studies (specialization in Italian Cinema), Cornell University

Research Interests

• Italian cinema from the 1960s to present
• Italian Women’s cinema
• Afrodescendant Italian and transnational cinema
• Eco-cinema
• The intersection between fiction and reality in feature films and documentaries from the 1960s to the present
• Echoes of Pier Paolo Pasolini in contemporary Italian cinema

Selected Publications

BOOK

Marco Tullio Giordana. Una poetica civile in forma di Cinema. Marco Olivieri, Anna Paparcone. Rubbettino Editore, May 2017.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Beyond Politics: The Cinema of Marco Tullio Giordana." Italian Political Cinema. Public Life, Imaginary and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film, edited by Christian Uva and Giancarlo Lombardi, Peter Lang, 2016, pp. 185-198.

"Romanzo di una strage di Marco Tullio Giordana: verso una riappropriazione critica di Pier Paolo Pasolini." Pier Paolo Pasolini. Prospettive americane, edited by Fulvio Orsitto, Federico Pacchioni, Matauro Edizioni, 2015, pp. 279-304.

"Un mosaico di verità per «una storia sbagliata». Il caso Pasolini secondo Marco Tullio Giordana e Aurelio Grimaldi." Strane storie. Il cinema e i misteri d'Italia, edited by Christian Uva, Rubbettino, October 2011, pp. 95-104.

"Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City: A Contemporary Perspective on the Camorra." Mafia Movies: A Reader, edited by Dana Renga, Toronto University Press, 2011, pp. 226-233.

ARTICLES

«L’arte non ha né razza né genere». I film e l’attivismo intersezionale e transnazioale di Daphne Di Cinto, Ira Fronten e Laila Petrone. in L'avventura. International journal of Italian film and media landscapes (upcoming, 2024).

“Contemporary Italian Women Artists of African Descent: A Transnational and Intersectional Approach to their Lives and Works,” The Italianist, 43:2, pp. 262-279. December 2023.

“Between Cities and Mountains: A Look at Contemporary Ecofeminist Cinema in Italy,” The Italianist 40.2, July 2020.

“Viaggi attraverso il tempo e lo spazio: la condizione delle donne nei documentari di Costanza Quatriglio.” Parol. Quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia. Mimesis, Sesto San Giovanni (Milano). November 2018.

"Cinema e televisione, da conflitto a sinergia: La mafia uccide solo d'estate di Pier Francesco Diliberto." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, SAGE Publications (UK), vol. 51, no. 3, November 2017, pp. 683-702.

"Matteo Garrone's Reality: the Big Brother Spectacle and its Rupture." MLN, vol. 131, no. 1, 2016, pp. 270-289.

"Su Realtà, Finzione e verità. Conversazione con Marco Tullio Giordana." Cinema60, no. 306, 2010, pp. 58-68.