Giovanna De Luca, Ph.D.
Professor of Italian I Affiliate Faculty - Film Studies
Education
Ph.D., City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York.
M.A., City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York.
B.A., Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples (Italy).
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Italian, American, French cinema, comparative literature, modern and contemporary Italian literature, literary and film theory, cultural studies, film festival studies.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:
Contemporary Neapolitan Cinema, in progress.
Harsh Spectacle: The Mafia in Italian and American Cinema, in progress.
Il punto di vista dell' infanzia nel cinema italiano e francese: rivisioni, Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2009.
Journal Essays (peer reviewed):
"Italian Exports: Italian Film Festivals in the USA." Cinergie: Il cinema e le altre arti, N. 18 December 2020, online only.
"From Fear to Laughter: How Comedy came to Describe the Camorra in Contemporary Italian Film." Italica, Vol. 95, Fall 2018, online only.
"Gomorra nell'immaginario popolare ossia Gli effetti di Gomorra sulla gente." AATI Work in Progress (https://bancheri.utm.utoronto.ca/aati- online/wpapers/viewer.html?file=../papers/705a6bf6291bb0e95dbbdff236bc4221.pdf), February 2017: 1-8.
"Into Paradiso and Mozzarella Stories: Comedy, Mafia and Immigration-An Interview with Paola Randi and Edoardo De Angelis." Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 3 (2015): 337- 390.
"I bambini e noi: l'infanzia nel cinema di Luigi Comencini," Quaderni d'italianistica, Special Issue Children and Cinema. Vol. XXXIV, N. 2 (2014): 85-98.
"Mediterraneanism and Ironic Postmodern Nostalgia in Sergio Rubini's Apulia" Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, (2012): 75-81.
"Il piccolo Archimede e Le chiavi di casa di Gianni Amelio: Autorialità e testo letterario," Forum Italicum, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2008): 184-199.
"Fable and Reality in Comencini's Voltati Eugenio," Italica, Vol. 82, No. 2 (2006): 210-221.
"La parola come irruzione della discontinuità nel selvaggio dell'Aveyron," Filmcritica, no. 538, (2003): 367-375.
"Il percorso morale di Cesarino Brei," Quaderni d'Italianistica, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2001): 127-136.
"Un uomo di carattere di Paola Capriolo: Il movimento impossibile," Quaderni d’Italianistica, vol. 19, n. 2 (2000): 137-143.
"The Victorious Children of Truffaut's Small Change," Film Comment, Jan./Feb. (1999): 64-69.
Book Chapters in refereed anthologies:
"Analisi sequenza -La corrente andreottiana-del film Il divo di Paolo Sorrentino" in Antologia del cinema per Vito Zagarrio. Edited by Christian Uva. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2022.
"Placido Rizzotto and Segreti di Stato" in Nuovo Cinema Politico: Public Life, Imagery and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film, edited by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva. New York: Peter Lang, 2016. 350-359.
"The Myth of Childhood: Luigi Comencini's Adaptation of La storia" In Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art, edited by Stefania Lucamante. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.173-182.
"Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema- 1944 to the Present" in The Italian Cinema Book, edited by Peter Bondanella. London: Palgrave Macmillan and The British Film Institute, 2014. 101-108.