Giorgio Bertellini

Giorgio Bertellini
Personal details
Born	Giorgio Bertellini (1967-05-13) May 13, 1967 (age 58) Mantua, Italy
Nationality	American and Italian
Alma mater	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore New York University
Occupation	Professor of Film at University of Michigan
Website	lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/giorgiob.html

Giorgio Bertellini an Italian-American media historian who specializes in the ways national and racial diversity informed American cinema's representation of citizenship, stardom, and leadership during the era of migrations, fascism, and World War II. He is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. ^[1]

Life

Born in Mantua, Italy, Bertellini studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and earned his Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He moved to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2001 as a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows ^[2] and is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the same institution with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Romance Languages. He was the Sargent-Faull Fellow ^[3] at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007–08) and a Tiro a Segno Fellow ^[4] in New York University's Italian Studies department.

Recognition

His work twice received the American Association of Italian Studies ^[5] book award for film and media (2010 and 2020). His other book awards include the Robert K. Martin Best Book Prize (Canadian Association for American Studies, ^[6] 2010), the Peter C. Rollins Book Award (Southwest Popular and American Culture Association, ^[7] 2015), the IASA Book Award (Italian American Studies Association, ^[8] 2020), and the Premio Internazionale di Letteratura Città di Como, ^[9] 2023). His work has been supported by the American Philosophical Association, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, he was selected as one of 180 Guggenheim fellows, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation-sponsored scholarship. ^[10]

Works

• The Cinema of Italy. Wallflower Press, 2004/2007. ^[11] . ISBN   978-1903364994
• Early Cinema and the 'National': Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor. (Co-edited with Richard Abel and Rob King). John Libbey Publishing, 2008. ASIN   B01E9Z1P71
• Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]} ASIN   B01FEL7QSI
• Emir Kusturica (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2015. ASIN   B00JMOLQMGMilan: Editrice Il Castoro, 1996. ISBN   88-8033-072-1; 2nd expanded ed., 2001 ISBN   978-8880330721; English Edition: Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ^[16] ASIN   B00JMOLQMG; Romanian Edition: Bucharest: IBU Publishing, 2017.
• Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader. John Libbey Publishing, 2013. ^{[17] [18]} ISBN   978-0861966707
• The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. University of California Press, 2019. ^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]} ASIN   B07MV7Z7RB
• Il Divo e il Duce. Fama, politica e pubblicità nell'America degli anni Venti. Florence: Le Monnier, 2022. ^[25] ISBN   978-8800862936

References

1. "Giorgio Bertellini | U-M LSA Department of Film, Television, and Media". lsa.umich.edu.
2. "University of Michigan Society of Fellows webpage".
3. "Giorgio Bertellini's Radcliffe Institute webpage".
4. "Tiro a Segno Fellowship Information Page".
5. "American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize Announcements - 2019 entry". Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
6. "Canadian Association for American Studies". Canadian Association for American Studies.
7. "Rollins Book Award | Southwest Popular/American Culture Association". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
8. "IASA Winners - 2020 Book Award List". Italian American Studies Association.
9. "Premio Internazionale Città di Como - Vincitori X Edizione".
10. "Giorgio Bertellini, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation page".
11. Garofalo, Piero (January 1, 2007). "The Cinema of Italy by Giorgio Bertellini, ed. (London: Wallflower Press, 2004)" . Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 24 (1): 92–97. doi:10.1080/10509200500486106. S2CID   194080582 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
12. "Robert Gordon, "Film History Recut," Times Literary Supplement, July 1, 2011, 28"..
13. "ROROTOKO : Giorgio Bertellini On his book Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque : Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews". rorotoko.com.
14. Alovisio, Silvio; Fasce, Ferdinando; Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2014). "QUADERNI STORICI Reviews of IEAC by Silvio Alovisio and Ferdinando Fasce". Quaderni Storici– via www.academia.edu.
15. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2010). "Richard Abel's Review of Italy in Early American Cinema (Film History 2010)". Film History. 22 (3) – via www.academia.edu.
16. "Andrew Horton, Slavic Review, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 2015): 923-924" . doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. JSTOR   10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. S2CID   165133761.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
17. "Gaetana Marrone, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol.2, no.3 (2014): 445-447" . doi:10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. JSTOR   10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. S2CID   165133761.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
18. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2017). "Kelsey E. Moore, Film & History, vol.47, no.1 (Summer 2017): 83-84". Film & History. doi: 10.1386/jicms.2.3.443_5.
19. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2020). "Piero Garofalo, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol.8, no.1 (2020): 162-165". The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies. doi: 10.1386/jicms_00014_5
20. Suárez, Nicolás (28 December 2020). "Nicolas Suárez, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in the 1920s," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 2020" . Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 41 (3): 582–584. doi:10.1080/01439685.2020.1865681. S2CID   234399060.
21. "Giorgio Bertellini, "When Americans Loved Mussolini—and what it tells us about Donald Trump's rise," Washington Post/Made by History, Feb. 28, 2019". The Washington Post .
22. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Intervista per LA LETTURA (Corriere della Sera) 2019_03_10". La Lettura– via www.academia.edu.
23. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Review of D/D by Giuliana Muscio, IL MANIFESTO / ALIAS". Il Manifesto/ALIAS– via www.academia.edu.
24. Bertellini, Giorgio (January 2019). "Desmond O'Grady, "Macho men: The links between Valentino and Mussolini," The Sydney Morning Herald, June 14, 2019". Sydney Morning Herald.
25. "Book information page in Italian".

External links

• Official website