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:

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 …

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate (1980) is, from a multitude of perspectives, a book-end. If Owen Wister is said to have spawned the Western genre (in fact a slightly spurious claim, given the multifarious incarnations of the myth in popular culture prior to The Virginian), Cimino is widely credited as its …