Publications

Books

I comunisti italiani tra Hollywood e Mosca: la sfida della cultura di massa (1943-1991) Giunti, Florence, 1995 (pp.572); English edition (revised and abridged): Between Hollywood and Moscow: The Italian Communists and the Challenge of Mass Culture, 1943-91 Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2000 (pp.270)

The Glamour System Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2006 (pp.211) with Clino T. Castelli (75% authored by Gundle)

Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War Indiana University Press, Bloomington Indiana, 2007; With David Forgacs (50% authored by Gundle); Italian edition published by Il Mulino in 2007.

Bellissima: Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007 (pp.301); Italian edition published by Laterza, 2007; second edition paperback, 2009

Glamour: A History Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008; second edition, paperback 2009 (pp.472).

Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s Canongate, London, 2011 (pp.380). Spanish (Seix Barral) and Italian (Rizzoli) editions were published 2012.

Mussolini鈥檚 Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2013 (pp.336)

Fame amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2020 (pp.370)

Edited works

The New Italian Republic: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi Routledge, London, 1995, co-edited with Simon Parker

鈥楥harisma and the Cult of Personality in Modern Italy鈥�, special issue of Modern Italy, 3:2, 1998 co-edited with Lucy Riall

Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture, Palgrave, New York, 2007 co-edited with Lucia Rinaldi

Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator Estorick Collection of Modern Art, London, 2010, exhibition catalogue co-edited with Roberta Cremoncini and others

The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2013, co-edited with Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri

鈥楾he Cult of Mussolini in 20th Century Italy鈥�, special issue of Modern Italy, 18:1, 2013 co-edited with Christopher Duggan and Giuliana Pieri

鈥�Rome Open City: Rupture and Return鈥� special issue of Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 6:3, 2017 co-edited with Louis Bayman and Karl Schoonover

鈥楶ractices and Contexts of the Italian Film Industry鈥�, special issue of Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40:1, 2020, co-edited with Karl Schoonover and Stefano Baschiera

'Divismo e cultura visuale nella prima meta' del Novecento', monographic issue of Storia e problemi contemporanei 88 (2021), co-edited with Barbara Montesi

Paul Ginsborg and the Historiography of Modern Italy, Palgrave, London 2024, co-edited with john Foot

Book chapters

'Class Politics and the Italian Left', in Neville Woodhead (ed.), Politics and Class, Hesketh, Ormskirk and Northridge, California 1985, pp.85-103

'Urban Dreams and Metropolitan Nightmares: Models and Crises of Communist Local Government in Italy', in Bogdan Szajkowski (ed.), Marxist Local Government in Western Europe and Japan, Frances Pinter, London 1986, pp. 66-95

'The Communist Party and the Politics of Cultural Change in Post鈥慦ar Italy 1945 鈥� 1950', in Nicholas Hewitt (ed.), The Culture of Reconstruction: European Literature, Thought and Film in the Years 1945 鈥� 1950, Macmillan, London 1989, pp.12-36

'From Neorealism to Luci rosse: Cinema, Politics, Society 1945 鈥� 85' in Zygmunt Baranski and Robert Lumley (eds.), Culture and Conflict in Postwar Italy: Essays on Mass and Popular Culture, Macmillan, London 1990, pp.195-224

'Cultura di massa e modernizzazione: Vie Nuove e Famiglia Cristiana dalla guerra fredda alla societ脿 dei consumi', in Pier Paolo D'Attorre (ed.), Nemici per la pelle: sogno americano e mito sovietico nell'Italia contemporanea, Franco Angeli, Milan 1991, pp.235-68

'Il PCI e la campagna contro Hollywood 1948鈥�58', in D.W. Ellwood and G.P. Brunetta (eds.), Hollywood in Europa: industria, politica, pubblico del cinema 1945鈥�1960, La Casa Usher/Ponte alle Grazie, Florence 1991, pp.113-32

'Italy', in David Butler and Austin Ranney (eds.), Electioneering, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992, pp.173-201

'The Italian Communist Party, Gorbachev and the End of "Really Existing Socialism"', in David S. Bell (ed.), Western European Communists and the Collapse of Communism, Berg Publishers, Oxford 1993, pp.15-30

'La musica leggera', in Paul Ginsborg (ed.), Stato dell'Italia, Il Saggiatore, Milan 1994, pp.606-9

'RAI e Fininvest nell'anno di Berlusconi' in R.Katz and P.Ignazi (eds.) Politica in Italia: edizione 1995, Il Mulino, Bologna 1995, pp.189-209

'The Legacy of the Prison Notebooks: Gramsci, the PCI and Italian Culture in the Cold War Era' in Christopher Duggan and Christopher Wagstaff (eds.), Italy in the Cold War: Politics, Culture and Society, 1948 - 58, Berg, Oxford 1995, pp.131-47

'The Rise and Fall of Craxi's Socialist Party' in Gundle and Parker (eds.), The New Italian Republic, pp.85-98

'The Mass Media and the Political Crisis' in Gundle and Parker (eds.), The New Italian Republic (with Noelleanne O'Sullivan), pp.206-20

'RAI and Fininvest in the Year of Berlusconi' in R.Katz and P.Ignazi (eds.) Italian Politics: the Year of the Tycoon, Westview Press, Boulder 1996, pp.195-218

'Fame, Fashion and Style: the Italian Star System' in David Forgacs and Robert Lumley (eds.), Italian Cultural Studies: an Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996, pp.309-26

'Two Ideas of Stardom' in David Forgacs and Robert Lumley (eds.), Italian Cultural Studies: an Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996, pp.347-49

'La "religione civile" della resistenza: cultura di massa e identit脿 politica nell'Italia del dopoguerra' in Luisa Cicognetti, Lorenza Servetti and Pierre Sorlin (eds.), L'immagine della resistenza in Europa dopo il 1945, Istituto Parri, Bologna 1996, pp.1-39

'Television in Italy' in James Coleman and Brigitte Rollet (eds.), Television in Europe Intellect Books, Exeter 1997, pp.61-76

'Il divismo nel cinema europeo, 1945-60' in Gian Piero Brunetta (ed.), Storia del cinema mondiale, Vol.1 Il cinema europeo, Einaudi, Turin 1999, pp.759-86

'L'et脿 d'oro dello Star System' in Gian Piero Brunetta (ed.), Storia del cinema mondiale, Vol.2 Gli Stati Uniti, Einaudi, Turin 1999, pp.695-744

'Memory and Identity: Popular Culture in Postwar Italy' in Patrick McCarthy (ed.), Italy Since 1945 Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, pp.183-96

'Dive sintetiche: lo star system americano degli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta' in Gian Luca Farinelli and Jean-Loup Passek (eds.), Star al femminile, Transeuropa, Bologna, 2000, pp.134-48.

'Le d茅esses-marchandises du star system americain des ann茅es quarante e cinquante' in Gian Luca Farinelli and Jean-Loup Passek (eds.), Star au f茅minin: naissance, apog茅e et d茅cadence du star system, Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2000, pp.159-72.

'La Dolce Vita鈥� in David. W. Ellwood (ed.), The Movies as History, Sutton, Stroud, 2000, pp.132-40

'Il bel paese: Art, Beauty and the Cult of Appearance' in Gino Bedani (ed.), The Politics of Italian National Identity, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000, pp.106-36

'Flash Trash: Gianni Versace and the Theory and Practice of Glamour' in Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson (eds.), Fashion Cultures, Routledge, London, 2000, pp.331-48 (with Reka Buckley)

'Saint Ingrid at the Stake: Stardom and Scandal in the Bergman-Rossellini Collaboration' in David Forgacs, Sarah Lutton and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (eds.), Roberto Rossellini, BFI, London, 2000, pp.64-79

'Fashion and Glamour' in Nicola White (ed.), The Fashion 糖心TV, Berg, Oxford 2000, pp.85-106 (with Reka Buckley)

'Immagini della prosperit脿鈥� in Roberto Gualtieri (ed.), Il Pci nell鈥橧talia repubblicana, Carocci, Rome, 2002, pp.253-84

'Visions of Prosperity: Consumerism and Popular Culture in Italy from the 1920s to the 1950s' in Carl Levy and Mark Roseman (eds.), Three Postwar Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918 – 1945 - 1989, Palgrave, London, 2001, pp.151-72

'Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy' in Rudy Kushnar (ed.), Histories of Leisure, Berg, Oxford, 2002, pp.257-77. Also contained in Peter McNeil (ed.), Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Vol.4, Berg, Oxford, 2009.

'Film Stars and Society in Fascist Italy' in Piero Garofalo and Jacqueline Reich (eds.), Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema 1922-43, University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, 2002, pp.315-39

'Il divismo femminile italiano del dopoguerra in Gran Bretagna e Gli Stati Uniti鈥� in Il Cinema italiano nel mondo, Premi internazionali Flaiano, Pescara, 2003, pp.113-26

'Sophia Loren, Italian Icon鈥� in Lucy Fischer and Marcia Landy (eds.) Stars: the Film Reader, Routledge, London, 2004, pp.77-96

'Le origini della spettacolarit脿 nella politica di massa鈥� in Maurizio Ridolfi (ed.), Propaganda e comunicazione politica, Bruno Mondadori, Milan, 2004, pp.1-24

'Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy鈥�, in Sandra Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla (eds.), Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe, Lexington Books/ Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2005, pp.253-66

'Hollywood, Italy and the First World War: Italian Responses to three film versions of Ernest Hemingway鈥檚 A Farewell to Arms鈥�, in Guido Bonsaver and Robert Gordon (eds.), State, Culture and Censorship in Twentieth-Century Italy, Legenda, Oxford, 2005, pp.98-108

鈥楲o spettacolo e la merce: consumi, industria culturale e mass media鈥�, in Stefano Cavazza and Emanuela Scarpellini (eds.), Il secolo dei consumi: dinamiche sociali nell鈥橢uropa del Novecento, Carocci, Rome, 2006), pp.175-96

鈥楲a culture de masse en Italie fasciste鈥�, in Jean-Yves Mollier, Jean-Fran莽ois Sirinelli, Fran莽ois Vallotton (eds.), Culture de masse et culture m茅diatique en Europe et dans les Am茅riques 1860-1940, PUF, Paris, 2006, pp.259-73

'Signorina buonasera: images of women in early Italian television鈥�, in Penelope Morris (ed.), Women in Italy 1946-60, Palgrave, New York, 2007, pp.65-76

鈥楩ashion Victims: the Gucci and Versace Murders鈥� in Gundle and Rinaldi, Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy (with Lucia Rinaldi), pp.181-92

鈥楾he English Rose and the Bella Italiana: Reflections on Two National Typologies of Feminine Beauty鈥� in Manfred Pfister and Ralf Hertel (eds.), Performing National Identity: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2008, pp.137-55

鈥楲es communistes italiens et la culture de masse am茅ricaine鈥� in Jean-Fran莽ois Sirinelli and Georges-Henri Soutou (eds.), Culture et guerre froide, PUPS, Paris, 2008, 39-51

鈥楿n Martini per il Duce: l鈥檌mmaginario del consumismo in Italia negli anni Venti e Trenta鈥� in Anna Villari (ed.), L鈥檃rte della pubblicit脿: il manifesto italiano e le vanguardie 1920-1940, Silvana editoriale, Milan, 2008, pp.46-69

鈥業l fascino cromatico: partiti politici, consumismo e colori tra l鈥橭ttocento e oggi鈥� in Stefano Pivato and Maurizio Ridolfi (eds.), I colori della politica: passioni, emozioni e rappresentazioni nell鈥檈t脿 contemporanea, Quaderni del Centro Sanmarinese di Studi Storici, n.27, San Marino, 2008, pp.25-48

鈥楽ogni e ambizioni: la persuasione visiva in Italia tra la fin-de-si猫cle e la nascita della societ脿 dei consumi鈥� in Anna Villari (ed.), Manifesti: pubblicit脿 e vita italiana, 1895-1945, Allianz/Silvana editoriale, Milan, 2009, pp.86-125

鈥楤erlusconi, il sesso e il mancato scandalo mediatico鈥� in Marco Giuliani and Erik Jones (eds.), Politica in Italia: edizione 2010, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010, pp.73-93.

鈥楤erlusconi, Sex and the Avoidance of a Media Scandal鈥� in Marco Giuliani and Erik Jones (eds.), Italian Politics: Managing Uncertainty, Berghahn, Oxford, 2010, pp.59-75.

鈥楲e glamour et la presse f茅minine鈥� in Claire Blandin and H茅l猫ne Eck (eds.), 鈥淟a vie des femmes鈥�: La presse feminine aux XIX et XX si猫cles, Editions Panth茅on-Assas, Paris, 2010, pp.69-84

鈥楽atire and the Destruction of the Cult of the Duce鈥� in Gundle and others, Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator, pp.15-35.

鈥楳ass Culture and the Cult of Personality鈥� (pp.72-90), 鈥楳ussolini鈥檚 Appearances in the regions鈥� (pp.110-28) and 鈥楾he Aftermath of the Mussolini Cult: History, Nostalgia and Popular Culture鈥� (pp.241-56) in Gundle, Duggan and Pieri (eds.), The Cult of the Duce

鈥楴eorealism and Left-Wing Culture鈥� in Peter Bondanella (ed.), The Italian Cinema Book, BFI-Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013, pp.77-83

鈥楥inema and Television' in Erik Jones and Gianfranco Pasquino (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics, OUP, Oxford, 2015, pp.569-82.

'Interpretare il dittatore: le rievocazoni di Mussolini al cinema e in televisione' in Monica Jansen and Maria Bonaria Urban (eds), Televisonismo: narrazioni televisive della storia italiana negli anni della seconda Repubblica, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice, 2015, pp.

'Guai ai vinti: from novel to film' in Sharon Wood (ed.) Annie Chartres Vivanti: Transnational Politics, Identity and Culture, Rowan & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2016 (with Simona Storchi), pp.

鈥楾he Question of Italian National Character and the Limits of Commedia all鈥檌taliana: Alberto Sordi, Federico Fellini and Carlo Lizzani鈥� in Frank Burke (ed.), A Companion to Italian Cinema, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2017, pp.198-214

'The enduring glamour of the Parisienne' in Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau (eds), Paris in the Cinema: Beyond the Flaneur, BFI/Palgrave, London, 2018, pp.166-78.

'Melato, Muti & Antonelli: dive e divismo nel cinema italiano degli anni Settanta' in M. Casalini (ed.), Donne e cinema: immagini del femminoile dal fascismo agli anni Settanta Viella, Rome, 2016, pp.149-72

鈥楩rom Mussolini to Berlusconi: Masculinity and Political Leadership in Post-War Italy鈥� in Christopher Fletcher et al. (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe, Basingstoke 2018, pp.435-55

鈥楥inema e mondo dei consumi鈥� in Stefano Cavazza and Emanuela Scarpellini (eds) I consumi, Storia d鈥橧talia, Annali 27, Einaudi, Turin, 2018, pp.546-64

鈥樷€滺ollywood sul Tevere鈥� e lo star system鈥� in Chiara Ottaviano (ed.), Bulgari – una storia italiana: ricerche, Rizzoli Electa, Milan 2019, pp.234-45

鈥楾he Five Faces of the Italian Femme Fatale鈥� in Joseph Luzzi (ed.), Italian Cinema: From the Silent Screen to the Digital Image, Bloomsbury, London, 2020, pp.123-40

Refereed journal articles

'A Critique of Structuralist State Theorizing', Contemporary Crises, 6:2, 1982 (with James Petras), 161-82

'L'americanizzazione del quotidiano: televisione e consumismo nell'Italia degli anni cinquanta', Quaderni storici, 21:61(2), 1986, 561-94

'Sophia Loren, Italian Icon', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 15: 3, 1995, 367-85

'The Crisis of 1992-94 and the Reform of Italian Public Broadcasting', Modern Italy, I:1, 1995 (with Noelleanne O'Sullivan), 70-81

'The Americanization of Daily Life: Television and Consumerism in Italy in the 1950s', Italian History and Culture, 2, 1996, 11-39

'Carisma, teatralit脿 e immagine nella storia politica italiana', Almannacchi nuovi, 3:8, 1997/98, 114-33

'The Death (and Re-Birth) of the Hero: Charisma and Manufactured Charisma in Modern Italy', Modern Italy, 3:2, 1998, 173-89

'Mapping the Origins of Glamour: Giovanni Boldini, Paris and the Belle Epoque', Journal of European Studies, 29:3, 1999, 269-95

'Feminine Beauty, National Identity and Political Conflict in Postwar Italy, 1945-54', Contemporary European History, 8:3, 1999, 359-78

'The 鈥淐ivic Religion鈥� of the Resistance in Postwar Italy', Modern Italy, 5:2, 2000, 113-32

'Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy', Journal of Cold War Studies, 4:3 Fall 2002, 95-118.

'La modernit茅 italienne et l鈥檌mage de l鈥橝m茅rique鈥�, Le Banquet, 21, 2004, 107-26

'Adriano Celentano and the Origins of Rock and Roll in Italy鈥�, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 11:3, 2006, 367-86

鈥楲o stile e la merce: la ricezione della moda italiana in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti鈥�, Memoria e ricerca , n.23, 2006, 95-116

鈥樷€漋enus on Earth鈥�: Lina Cavalieri and the Professionalisation of Italian Beauty between the Fin-de–Si猫cle and the Belle 脡poque鈥�, Italian Studies, 62:1 Spring 2007, 45-60

鈥業dentity, Place and Culture: Patrick McCarthy鈥檚 articles for the Bologna pages of La Repubblica鈥�, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 14:1, 2009, 82-95

鈥楢necdotes and historiography: From Traiano Boccalini鈥檚 strange death to Benito Mussolini鈥檚 sexual proclivities鈥�, Incontri: rivista europea di studi italiani, 24:1, 2009, 101-8.

鈥楢lida Valli in Hollywood: From Star of Fascist Cinema to 鈥淪elnick Siren鈥濃€�, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32:4, 2012, 559-87

鈥楶laying the Dictator: Re-enactments of Mussolini in Film and Television鈥�, Modern Italy, 18:1, 2013, 177-95

鈥楬ow Berlusconi Will Be Remembered: Notoriety, Collective Memory and the Mediatization of Posterity鈥�, Modern Italy, 20:1, 2015, 91-109

'Italian Cinema at the Oscars: Explaining the Success of a Nostalgic National Image', Memoria & Ricerca, 2: 2016, 243-260

鈥楾eniche e pratiche di pubblicit脿 nel cinema italiano tra gli anni 30 e gli anni 50鈥�, Quaderni del CSCI: rivista annuale di cinema italiano, n.13, 2018, 33-43

鈥楪lamour Studies: The State of the Field鈥�, Fashion, Film and Consumption, 8:1, 2019, 9-16

鈥樷€漌e Have Everything to Learn from the Americans鈥�: Film Promotion, Product Placement and Consumer Culture in Italy, 1945-1965鈥�, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40:1, 2020

鈥楢lessandro Blasetti and the Rise of the Italian Film Industry, 1929-1959鈥�, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40:1, 2020 (with Michela Zegna)

Encyclopedia entries

In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (Routledge, London, 2001): Baudo, Pippo; Canzonissima; Carr脿, Raffaella; Costanzo, Maurizio; Mina; Milva; Santoro, Michele.

In The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming 2002): Communism; Comics; Popular song; Television; Fotoromanzo; Bocca, Giorgio; Botteghe Oscure; Cantautori; Longanesi, Leo; Rinascita; 厂辞肠颈别迟脿; Alicata, Mario; Il Contemporaneo; De Andr茅, Fabrizio; La Domenica del Corriere; Gassman, Vittorio; Togliatti, Palmiro; Tot貌.

In Dizionario del fascismo (Einaudi, Turin, 2002): Calamai, Clara; divismo, Nazzari, Amedeo; Valli; Alida

Book reviews

For the following journals: Journal of Communist Studies, Italian Studies, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Journal of Modern History, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Communist Affairs: Documents and Analysis, Newsletter of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Times Higher Education, English Historical Review, History Today, Journal of Cold War Studies

Conference papers

'Themes in the Cultural Policies of the French and Italian Communist Parties 1945 鈥� 1954': Seminar on Politics, Culture and Society in Post鈥慦ar France and Italy, Open University 25 February 1987

'The Communist Party and the Politics of Cultural Change in Post鈥慦ar Italy 1945 鈥� 1950': Conference on the Culture of Reconstruction in France, Italy and Germany 1945 鈥�1950, 糖心TV University, 2鈥�4 May 1987

'Cinema, Politics and Society 1945 鈥� 1985', Turbulent Transitions: a Conference on Popular and Mass Culture in Post鈥慦ar Italy, Reading University, 23鈥�24 October 1987

'La linea culturale del PCI e la sfida del cinema americano': Conference on 'Hollywood in Europe 1945鈥�60' organised by International Association for Visual Media Historical Research and Education and Ente Teatro Romano, European University Institute, Fiesole, 16鈥�18 March 1989

'Vie Nuove e Famiglia Cristiana dalla guerra fredda alla societ脿 dei consumi': Conference on 'Bosom Enemies: American and Soviet Myths in Contemporary Italy' organised by Istituto Gramsci Emilia鈥慠omagna and Dipartimento di discipline storiche, Universit脿 di Bologna, Gramsci Institute, Bologna, 25鈥�27 January 1990

'The Reception and Interpretation of Gramsci': Conference on Italy in the Cold War Period, Reading University, 26鈥�27 October 1990

'I giovani, le subculture politiche e lo "star system"': Conference on Youth and Society in Italy During the Reconstruction, 1948鈥�60, Gramsci Institute, Bologna, 28 February 1993

'The Role of the Media': 1994 ASMI Annual Conference on 'The Italian Crisis 1989-94, London 25-26 November 1994

'The Communist Challenge for Power in the 1970's'. SIS AGM round table on 'Problems of Italian Democracy in the First Republic', London, 7 January 1995

'Associazionismo contro consumismo: il tempo libero in Italia 1945-95': Conference on 'Strutture e metodi del consenso nell'Italia repubblicana', University of Pisa, Pisa 28-31 March 1995

'Consumerism and Popular Culture in Fascist Italy': Conference of ASMI-ASMCF-GHA on 'The Stabilisation of Europe in Three Postwar Eras', Keele University, 1-3 April 1995

'Il mito della Resistenza nell'arte del dopoguerra' Conference on 'The Image of the Resistance in Europe 1945 - 1960'. Istituto regionale Ferruccio Parri, Bologna, 8 - 10 May 1995

'Berlusconi and the Italian Star System', Conference on the Construction of Identities in Contemporary Italy, 糖心TV University, 14 October 1995

'Culture and National Identity in Italy 1930s - 1950s', 1995 ASMI Annual Conference on 'Formations of Italian National Identity', London, 10-11 November 1995

'Film Stars and Social Change', Institute of Romance Studies Symposium on 'Italian Culture From Fascism to the Republic', 19 January 1996

'Giovanni Boldini and the Origins of Glamour', Society for Italian Studies Conference, Glasgow University, 17-19 April 1997

'La sfida del glamour: il fascino, la bellezza e il consumismo di massa nell'Italia del dopoguerra', Conference on 'Italia e Stati Uniti a 50 anni dal Piano Marshall', Centro Studi Americani, Rome 26-28 March 1998

'The Beauty Question 1900-50', Society of Italian Studies Symposium on 'Feminine Beauty and Italian Culture', Italian Cultural Institute, 9 January 1999

'La sinistra e la societ脿 dei consumi in Italia ed Europa鈥�, Conference on 'Il PCI nell鈥橧talia repubblicana, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, 25-26 May 2000

'Miss Italia in Black and White: Feminine Beauty and Ethnic Identity in Modern Italy鈥�. Writing Europe 2001: Migrant Cartographies, Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden, 22-24 March 2001

'Cultura di massa e propaganda politica: consumismo, pubblicit脿 e divismo nelle campagne elettorali del secondo dopoguerra鈥�, Conference on 'Linguaggi della politica nel '900鈥�, University of Viterbo, 3-5 April 2001

'Glamour et propagande: les concours de beaut茅 communistes des ann茅es Cinquante鈥�, Conference on 'Propagande et Contre-propagande en Italie de 1945 脿 nos jours鈥�, Italian Cultural Institute, Paris, 22-23 November 2001

'After the Fall of the Ideologies: Left and Right In Britain, Italy and Europe鈥� International seminar for British and Italian Press, Fondazione Cini, Venice, 8-9 March 2002

'Dive e divismo鈥� conference on 'Il cinema italiano nel mondo鈥�, Premi internazionali Flaiano, Pescara, 11-13 July 2002

'Signorina buonasera: images of women in early television鈥�, conference on 'Women in Italy 1946-60鈥�, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 20-21 September 2002

'Hollywood, Italy and the First World War: Italian Responses to the 1932 and 1957 versions of A Farewell to Arms鈥�, conference on 'Culture and the State in Italy鈥�, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, 20-21 October 2002

'Corpi pubblici, corpi privati: famiglia, intimit脿 e tempo libero in Italia tra gli anni 30 e gli anni 50鈥�, conference on 'Famiglia, Stato e societ脿 civile in Europa鈥�, University of Florence, 12-13 March 2004

'La culture de masse dans l鈥橧talie fasciste鈥�, conference on 'Culture de masse et culture m茅diatique en Europe et dans les Am茅riques, 1880-1940鈥�, University of Lausanne, 22-24 September 2004

鈥楾he Origins of Glamour鈥�, conference on 鈥楪lamour: Theory and Practice鈥� at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, 25-26 February 2005

鈥楨lvis in Europe鈥�, conference on 鈥楨uropeanization and Americanization: rival projects or synonyms?鈥�, European Studies Consortium, St Anthony鈥檚 College, Oxford 15-16 April 2005

鈥榊earning for the 1950s? Nostalgia and Escapism in Contemporary Italy鈥�, conference on 鈥榃here is Italy going? Problems and prospects of a resilient democracy 1994-2005鈥�, St. Anthony鈥檚 College, Oxford 10-11 May 2005

鈥樷€漈he Most Beautiful Woman in the World鈥�: Lina Cavalieri, the Original Italian Diva鈥� conference on 鈥楥herchez la femme: the cinematic femme fatale鈥� University of Exeter, 2-3 September 2005

鈥楲o spettacolo e la merce: la moda italiana in Gran Bretagna e gli Stati Uniti鈥�, conference on 鈥楽toria dei consumi e identit脿 collettive nel secondo dopoguerra鈥�, ESRC/AHRC Cultures of Consumption Programme, Dipartimento di studi storici, Universit脿 Ca鈥� Foscari, Venezia, 7 October 2005

鈥楲es communistes italiens et la culture am茅ricaine鈥�, Conference on: 鈥楥ulture et guerre froide des ann茅es 1940 aux ann茅es 1980鈥�, Universit茅 de Paris IV, Sorbonne, 20-21 October 2005-10-25

鈥楧reams and desires: the culture of consumption in postwar Italy鈥�, Conference on 鈥楢fter the Deluge: Comparative perspectives on the Post World War Two Era鈥�, Princeton University, 17-18 March 2006

鈥楾he Via Veneto: myth, cinema, reality鈥�, Society of Italian Studies Interim conference on 鈥楶ublic and Private Spaces in Italian Culture鈥�, IGRS, 21-22 April 2006

鈥業l fascino dei colori: societ脿 e politica nell鈥橢uropa contemporanea鈥�, keynote address to Conference on 鈥業 colori della politica鈥�, San Marino November 2006-12-26

鈥業mages glamour en politique: la dimension 茅stetique des croyances sociales鈥�, Conference on 鈥楶hotographie et croyances sociales鈥�, Institut de l鈥檋istoire du temps pr茅sent, Paris, 8 December 2006

鈥楪aribaldi: from charismatic hero to movie icon鈥�, ASMI Annual Conference on 鈥楪aribaldi and the Politics of Radical Fame鈥�, London 23-24 November 2007

鈥楶opular Passions and Popular Culture鈥�. 鈥楢 Special View of Italy: Conference in Memory of Patrick McCarthy鈥�, Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center, 7-8 March 2008

鈥楲e sens du 鈥済lamour鈥濃€�, 鈥楲a singularit茅 de la presse f茅minine鈥�, journ茅e d鈥櫭﹖udes de l鈥橧nstitut fran莽ais de la presse, Universit茅 de Paris II, 11 April 2008

鈥楢lida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and the star system in 1948鈥�, Conference on 鈥�18 April 1948: Italy between Continuity and Rupture鈥�, Reading University and Italian Cultural Institute, London, 18-19 April 2008

鈥楴octurnal Fascinations: Roman nights from the Grand Tour to the Dolce Vita鈥�, Workshop 鈥楻e-thinking the Night鈥�, 糖心TV University Italian Department, 30 April 2008

鈥楪lamour comme acception d鈥檜ne mani猫re d鈥櫭猼re鈥�, 鈥楲a soci茅t茅 du bien-锚tre鈥�, Universit茅 de Paris II – INA, Paris, 28 November 2008

鈥楾he Dictator鈥檚 Wardrobe鈥� at 鈥楴ew Perspectives on the Cult of Mussolini鈥�, double panel at Society for Italian Studies, Biennial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London 16-18 April 2009

鈥楳ussolini and the mass media: before, during and after Fascism鈥�, 鈥楾he Cult of the Duce鈥�, international workshop, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth 3 September 2010

鈥楤erlusconi in Historical Perspective: Masculinity and Political Leadership in Modern Italy鈥�, keynote address to workshop on 鈥楳asculinity and Political Leadership in Europe鈥�, Institute of Historical Research and Department of History, Birkbeck College, 15-16 December 2010.

鈥楲aughing Under Fascism: Comedy, Jokes and Ridicule in Italy, 1922-1943鈥�, opening paper at 鈥楽anctioned Laughter: Humour, War and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Europe鈥�, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and The Wiener Library, London, 10 May 2013

'Images and Lifestyles of Producers', at 'Film producers and Production Practices in Italian Cinema', AHRC project workshop, 糖心TV University, 15 June 2016

鈥楬ow Movie Stars Become National Icons鈥� keynote address at 鈥業cons of Italy鈥� conference, University of Hull, 6-7 September 2016

鈥楾rasformazioni e continuit脿 nello star system italiano tra guerra e dopoguerra鈥�, keynote address at 鈥楽tardom and Peformance in Post-War Italian Cinema, 1945-54, University of Turin, 17-18 May 2018

鈥楬istorical Stereotypes and Marketing Clich茅s in the Foreign Consumption of Italian Cinema鈥� keynote address at 鈥楳ade in Italy: la circolazione internazionale dell鈥檃udiovisivo italiano come prodotto culturale鈥�, University of Bologna, 19-20 June 2018

鈥楲a mascolinit脿 del leader politico: problemi, contesti e confronti difficili鈥� at 鈥楨lette e eletti: rappresentanza e rappresentazioni di genere nell鈥橧talia repubblicana鈥�, Historical Archive of the Presidency of the Republic, Rome, 21-22 February 2019

鈥楻eading Italian Film Credits鈥� at 鈥榃omen in Italian Film Production鈥�, AHRC project workshop, 糖心TV University 15 March 2019

鈥楳od猫les 茅trangers sur la longue dur茅e: les cultures 茅tats-unienne, fran莽aise et italienne sous influence, XIX-XXeme si猫cle鈥� keynote address at 鈥楲鈥檈tranger comme modele: source d鈥檌nspiration et vecteur d鈥檜topies en Europe occidentale depuis 1917鈥� Ecole normale sup猫rieure, Paris, 2-4 June 2019

鈥楨xemplary Anecdotes and petite histoire: Mussolini between Hero-Worship and Trivialisation鈥� at 鈥楩ascist Exemplars: Past and Present鈥�, Cambridge, 5 July 2019

鈥楾he Denis Mack Smith and Renzo De Felice TV Debate鈥� at 鈥楥onference in Memory of Denis Mack Smith鈥� Italian Cultural Institute, London, 25 October 2019

鈥業cons, Media and Time: La Dolce Vita, Nation Brands and鈥ussolini鈥� at 鈥榃orkshop on 鈥楳ediating Icons鈥� University of Hull, 10 January 2020

Exhibition curated

鈥楢gainst Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator鈥�, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 22 September – 19 December 2010

鈥楧ream Makers: Italian Cinema and Its Great Producers鈥�, Sala Borsa, Bologna, 20 June – 15 September 2018

Selected invited lectures

'The Mass Media and Italian Society', four lectures in the Department of Italian, University College London, January-February 1996

'Italian Cinema Since 1945', two lectures in the School of Languages, Coventry University, March 1996

'Divismo e americanismo nell'Italia repubblicana', lecture in the Department of History, University of Venice, 21 May 1996

'Culture and Society in Postwar Italy', four lectures in the Faculty of Modern Languages, Oxford University, October-November 1996

'The Origins of Glamour', Max Mara lecture, Kingston University 16 March 1998

'Visual Seductions: Beauty, Glamour and Publicity in Postwar Italy鈥�, Estorick Collection of Italian Art, London 18 October 2003

鈥�La Dolce Vita and Rome in the 1950s鈥�, Fellini Study Day, National Film Theatre, 18 September 2004

鈥楪lamour and Modernity: Wealth and Sex Appeal in Europe and America 1800-1960鈥�, Guildford Museum, 9 December 2004

Presentation of Francesco Barbagallo, Enrico Berlinguer (Rome: Carocci editore 2006), Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio, Rome, with Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, 24 March 2006

鈥楤eauty Wars: the Aesthetic Politics of Feminine Beauty from the Risorgimento to the Present鈥�, keynote address to the American Association of Italian Studies, Colorado Springs, 4 May 2007

鈥楩eminine Beauty and the Image of Italy鈥�, British Italian Society, London, 11 October 2007

鈥楪lamour鈥�, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Cambridge, 20 October 2009

鈥楩ashion and Glamour鈥�, Runneymede Literary Festival, Egham, Surrey, 20 March 2010

鈥楪lamour and the Mystique of Fashion鈥�, School of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2 September 2010

鈥楳ussolini鈥檚 Ghost: The Aftermath of a Personality Cult鈥�, British Library Annual Italian Studies lecture, 21 June 2012

鈥楻emembering Anita Ekberg and Virna Lisi鈥�, public lecture at Italian Cultural Institute, London, 27 February 2015

鈥楲a Dolce Vita: Federico Fellini鈥� public lecture as part of the Laterza series on 鈥業l carattere degli italiani鈥�, Auditorium, Rome 24 March 2019 (repeated Genoa 27 October 2019; recording broadcast on TV channel RAI Storia, 30 November 2019)

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