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Today is already Yesterday: The Glossa XX1 architectural project for the Italian Memorial in Block 21 at Auschwitz
2012
Abstract The architect of the proposed Glossa XX1 Architectural Project for the Italian Memorial in Block 21 at Auschwitz presents and elucidates the restorations it involves and its response to criticisms made by the director of the Auschwitz Museum.
Hollywood by Hollywood: the backstudio picture and the mystique of making movies
2019
In comparison with some of its other great genres, what Steve Cohan terms ‘the backstudio picture’ has been relatively unexplored in film studies, though screen fictions that focus on the film indu...
(Re)negotiating Freedom of Expression in the Spanish Transition: The Case of El Papus (1973-1987)
2020
Juxtaposing documents from judicial and administrative archives with material published in the satirical magazine El Papus (1973-1987), this essay examines the confrontation between national-Catholic discourse and new modes of visual and textual expression in late Francoism and the early years of the democratic transition in Spain. The present study represents a survey of some 44 state-produced documents and 124 journalistic pieces, applying a two-pronged methodology rooted in discourse analysis with a special focus on the content and themes deemed unfit for publication in the pages of El Papus. The results will show that a loosening of erotic and sexual mores, particularly those related to…
«Widrige Winde»: Der Abbruch der schonischen Expedition aus der Sicht des preußischen Gesandten, des Freiherrn Friedrich Ernst von Cnyphausen
2017
There are two interpretations of Peter the Great’s motives for refusing to land on the Swedish island of Schonen in historiography: that the tsar feared unforeseen military risks and that he did not trust his allies, Denmark and Great Britain. In this article, the author attempts to analyse in a more detailed way the reasons and consequences for the mistrust in the Northern Alliance by looking at communications by Baron Friedrich Ernst von Cnyphausen, the Prussian ambassador in Copenhagen. It is shown that the Russophobic hysteria which grasped the Danish royal court in September 1716 looks completely irrational when we consider parallel attitudes in the Prussian court. Cnyphausen does not …
A prequel to Nollywood: South African photo novels and their pan-African consumption in the late 1960s
2010
This article interrogates the history of the photo novel in Africa with particular reference to African Film, a magazine of almost pan-African circulation, published between 1968 and 1972 in South Africa. Featuring the adventures of Lance Spearman, an African crime fighter, the magazine was read widely across Anglophone Africa, from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. After a brief introduction to the history of the photo novel, the author discusses the production, content, reception, and legacy of the Lance Spearman photo novels. It is argued that Lance Spearman may be understood as a crossover of James Bond and Philip Marlowe, and several influences from…
Palinsesti pulciani. Il Morgante tra tradizione e tradimento
2019
L’articolo delinea i rapporti del Morgante con la tradizione comica in ottave tra Cinquecento e Seicento. In particolare si sofferma sull’Astolfo borioso di Marco Guazzo e sull’eroicomico s...
Trame e genealogie dell’ironia ariostesca
2014
AbstractQuesto saggio traccia una genealogia dell’interpretazione ironica del Furioso, risalendo alla molteplicita delle sue sorgenti, e al tempo stesso analizza la trama delle diverse accezioni dell’ironia, prendendo in considerazione il ruolo attivo della ricezione ma senza rinunciare a osservare i meccanismi in gioco direttamente nel testo ariostesco. Si delinea cosi un quadro frastagliato, in cui domina l’asse romantico-idealistico che, tra Hegel e Croce, ha per cosi dire ufficializzato l’interpretazione ironica. Ma emergono anche una serie di varianti e correzioni del paradigma romantico: l’ironia come citazione, instaurata dal postmoderno ma non priva di appigli nella tradizione antic…
The Power of Affiliation: Dynastic Blood, Artificial Kinship and Legitimation Strategies. The Case of the Della Rovere Dukes of Urbino*
2021
After the Montefeltro dynasty’s demise in 1508, the Della Rovere family assumed power in the geo-strategically and culturally important Duchy of Urbino. The first dynasty of papal nephews able to p...
Beetwen Berlin and Moscow: Polish Western Thought in the Twenty-Year Interwar Period
2020
The article was submitted on 27.02.2020. This article is not primarily focused on presenting arguments and views held by Polish political groups with reference to the territorial shape of the Polish state after the First World War. Instead, its aim is to draw attention to actions taken by these groups towards the defence of Polish western lands. One of the key problems of Poland’s foreign policy after 1918 was the question of relations with its neighbours, chiefly Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union). For many years, the most serious problem faced by post-Versailles Europe was that of the Germans striving to revise the legal order, to break their political isolation, and return to the …
Enjoying sameness and difference – competition and convergence of Latin American telenovelas and Swahili video films in Tanzania
2018
Since the early 2000s Latin American telenovelas have become a very popular and widely received genre in Tanzania. At the same time, a huge video film industry has developed with local films made i...