Intellect Books’ Directory of World Cinema: Italy, edited by Louis Bayman, is now available for pre-order. This exciting new volume is a scholarly yet accessible collection of writing from some of the world’s leading experts in Italian cinema. I was honoured to be asked to compile the book’s Spaghetti Westerns …

My article, “Out West, Down South: Gazing at America in Reverse Shot through Damiano Damiani’s Quien sabe?” (The Italianist, (30:2) 2010) is now available for all to read and download free of charge, should you so wish. You can download the article in pdf format here, or just read it here:

On Saturday September 18th 2010, I will be addressing “Kiss Kiss Kill Kill: A Symposium on the Forgotten Spy Film of Cold War Europe” at the University of Hertfordshire. My paper, “Chronicles of Lead: Transatlantic Flow in 1970s Italian Cop Thrillers”, will consider the poliziesco filone‘s significance as both a …

My latest article, on the cinematographic nuances of Damiano Damiani’s political Italian Western Quien sabe? (1966), appears in this summer’s edition of The Italianist. This publication has become established as one of the leading international journals of Italian Studies. The annual Film Issue provides an outlet for research into an aspect …

If, like me, you struggle to keep up with the plethora of Spaghetti Western-related material floating around this here interweb, then the chaps over at the invaluable Spaghetti Western Database have a treat in store. Planet Spaghetti Western is a new syndicator, which pulls content from throughout the Spaghetti blogosphere …

I am currently editing the “Spaghetti Westerns” chapter of Intellect Books’ forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: Italy. I am therefore on the lookout for scholarly submissions for consideration in this exciting new project, which will be published both as a printed volume and an open-access database of articles and film reviews.
Submission Guidelines:
If …

Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited by Iain Robert Smith, is now online. This exciting new eBook of original scholarship on processes of adaptation in film, television and new media is a special edition of the peer-reviewed journal Scope: an Online Journal of Film and TV Studies. It includes my …

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My name is Austin Fisher, and I am a freelance writer, editor and academic. I have recently completed a PhD in Italian cinema at Royal Holloway, University of London, and am disseminating my research to the wider academic community using various media – including this …