Research areas: Italian cinema, 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, comparative literature, literary and film theory and cultural studies.
Relevant Publications
Book:
De Luca, Giovanna, Il punto di vista dell’infanzia nel cinema italiano e francese: rivisioni (Napoli: Liguori Editore, 2009).
Book Chapters:
– ‘The Myth of Childhood: Luigi Comencini’s Adaptation of La storia’ in Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History and the Power of Art, ed. by Stefania Lucamante (Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015).
– ‘Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema-1944 to the Present’ in The Italian Cinema Book, ed. by Peter Bondanella (London: BFI, 2014).
Articles:
– ‘”Il piccolo Archimede” e “Le chiavi di casa”di Gianni Amelio: autorialita’ e testo letterario’ Forum Italicum 42(1) (2008), 184-199.
– ‘Fables and Reality in Comenicini’s Voltati Eugenio’ Italica, 82(2) (2006), 210-221.
-‘La parola come irruzione della discontinuità’ nel sevalggio dell’Averno’ Filmcritica, 539 (2002), 367-375.
– ‘Il percorso Morale di cesarino Brei’ Quaderni di italianistica, vol.21, n 1 (2001): 127-136.
– ‘The Victorious Children of Truffaut’s Small Change’ Film Comment, jan/Feb (1999): 64-69.
Encyclopaedia Entry:
– ‘Ladri di biciclette’ in Encyclopedia of Italian Studies, ed. by Gaetana Marrone Puglia (New York: Rutledge, 2007), pp. 627-628.