10.Individual and Collaborative Film Studies in Italy: Legal Constraints and the Gender Balance

January 1, 1970 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Damiano Garofalo and Dom Holdaway

In this article, we offer a handful of reflections about collaborative scholarship in Italy, referring in particular to the principal public funding scheme for research—the so-called “Progetti di rilevante interesse nazionale” (PRIN), organized and financed by the Ministry for Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). We draw, moreover, on our experience working on “The International Circulation of Italian Cinema,” a project on which we both collaborated as postdoctoral researchers at different times between 2017 and 2020.

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11.My Way to Philosophy

Francesca Rigotti February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Francesca Rigotti

Here, an account is provided, in autobiographical form, of the path of the author toward philosophy, as a calling, from the choice of university faculty to the first experiences as researcher, until her encounter with the theme of metaphor, true love at first sight, and beyond. You can read about the birth of her form of thought: “impertinent thought,” including the contamination of genders and the philosophy of daily life,

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12.“Per me il documentario è relazione”: The Eloquence of Found Footage and Garment Workers’ Rights in Costanza Quatriglio’s Triangle

Valeria Castelli February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Open Contributions

by Valeria Castelli

This article examines Costanza Quatriglio’s use of found footage in Triangle (2014). This documentary film deals with the collapse of a building in Barletta in Apulia in 2011, in which four female textile workers and the factory owner’s daughter were killed. These deaths in the workplace are correlated with the notorious case of the victims of the fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory in New York in 1911. Quatriglio creatively uses found footage to persuade viewers of the similarities between the two accidents at work,

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13.Colonial Legacies in Family-Making and Family-Breaking: Carla Macoggi’s Memoirs as Semi-Autobiography

Carla Cornette February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Continuing Discussions

by Carla Cornette

Kkeywa: Storia di una bimba meticcia (2011) and La nemesi della rossa (2012) constitute the sequential memoirs of Carla Macoggi, Ethiopian-Italian author and attorney. They recount the case of an adoption of a meticcia/mixed-race Ethiopian-Italian child by a white Italian businesswoman in the 1970s in Addis Abeba and their subsequent migration to Italy. This analysis situates race and gender at the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Theory to reveal the persistence of the colonial practices of madamato marital arrangements and the disenfranchisement of the meticci children of Italian men and indigenous women in the former colonies which culminates in the transracial,

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14.“C’è una famiglia che vuole un bambino e una donna che vuole farlo per loro”: La maternità surrogata nell’immaginario maschile gay

Luca Guizzardi February 21, 2021 Issue: g/s/i 7 (2020) Category: Continuing Discussions

by Luca Guizzardi

The purpose of this essay is to analyze how surrogate motherhood is represented both in academic and scientific debates and in the everyday lives of gay men. The work is structured as follows: in the first part of the article, the author tries to pinpoint some important issues on surrogacy from two different point of views: surrogacy as gender trouble and surrogacy as feminism trouble. Subsequently, the symbolic and cultural representations of surrogacy by the gay men interviewed are presented.

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