Manuela Di Franco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Di Franco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Franco |
| SIGNATURE | DI FRANCO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9041-8253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Io so’ Carmela
Comics offer a compelling medium for bearing witness to experiences of trauma, particularly in cases of gender-based violence. Through the interplay of images, text, and colour, comics can convey layered, affective narratives that move beyond depersonalized accounts. Io so’ Carmela is a striking example of this potential: a graphic biographical novel based on the diary of Carmela Cirella, a teenager who took her own life following multiple assaul…
Representing violence against women across Italian media
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Getting ready for the Second World War. Fascist Propaganda and Ideology in L’Avventuroso (1938–40)
In 1938, the Italian Fascist regime enacted legislation banning foreign comics, specifically targeting the children’s press. As a result, publishers like Nerbini had to radically alter their magazines’ contents to align with the regime’s aim of using the children’s press as a tool for indoctrinating Italian youth with Fascist values. This article takes L’Avventuroso as a case study to investigate how Fascist policies influenced children’s media b…
(Bio)Graphic Novels
Over the past decade, the Italian comics landscape has been transformed by autobiographical comic artists like Zerocalcare and Takoua Ben Mohamed, whose works have significantly broadened the comics readership in Italy. The success of these authors, along with the rise of the non-serialised form of the 'graphic novel', has also influenced the production of biographical comics. These comics offer fresh perspectives on the lives of notable figures …
Finding My Shadow
Diego Bastianutti, poeta, scrittore e accademico, ripercorre in questa autobiografia il complesso labirinto di emozioni che, attraverso l'arte e la poesia, hanno accompagnato il suo viaggio introspettivo alla ricerca di una identità profondamente segnata dalla diaspora Giuliano-Dalmata. L'eco della sua terra di origine e della città di Fiume, dove nacque, accompagna questo viaggio, in un cammino contraddistinto dai diversi confini che ha attraver…
Introduction to Issue
The female image has been under scrutiny in Italy since the Middle Ages. Women were subjected to strict rules that suggested a model of femininity characterized by a modest appearance and behavior.1 Alongside lawmakers, theorists and moralists intervened to regulate women's appearance. Treatises scrutinizing women's bodies, behaviors and education were written with the aim of standardizing women's image and ruled on their makeup, their apparel, a…
Lirosi, Alessia. La confraternita di Sant’Anna. La Compagnia di Sant’Anna nella chiesa di S. Pantaleo tra XVII e XVIII secolo
Lirosi, Alessia. La confraternita di Sant’Anna. La Compagnia di Sant’Anna nella chiesa di S. Pantaleo tra XVII e XVIII secolo. An article from journal Confraternitas (THE SCUOLA DALMATA DEI SANTI GIORGIO E TRIFONE IN VENICE), on Érudit
Rotocalchi femminili nell’Italia Fascista. Grazia (1938–43)
In the last decades of the Fascist regime, women’s illustrated magazines (rotocalchi) incorporated and spread models of femininity coming from abroad, which coexisted with the Fascist ideal of the ‘angel of the hearth’. The presence of both modern and traditional models of femininity is striking in a popular and successful magazine such as Grazia, published by Mondadori between 1938 and 1943. The study of Grazia is not only revealing of the coexi…
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Rotocalchi femminili nell’Italia Fascista. Grazia (1938–43)
In the last decades of the Fascist regime, women’s illustrated magazines (rotocalchi) incorporated and spread models of femininity coming from abroad, which coexisted with the Fascist ideal of the ‘angel of the hearth’. The presence of both modern and traditional models of femininity is striking in a popular and successful magazine such as Grazia, published by Mondadori between 1938 and 1943. The study of Grazia is not only revealing of the coexi…
Lirosi, Alessia. La confraternita di Sant’Anna. La Compagnia di Sant’Anna nella chiesa di S. Pantaleo tra XVII e XVIII secolo
Lirosi, Alessia. La confraternita di Sant’Anna. La Compagnia di Sant’Anna nella chiesa di S. Pantaleo tra XVII e XVIII secolo. An article from journal Confraternitas (THE SCUOLA DALMATA DEI SANTI GIORGIO E TRIFONE IN VENICE), on Érudit
Finding My Shadow
Diego Bastianutti, poeta, scrittore e accademico, ripercorre in questa autobiografia il complesso labirinto di emozioni che, attraverso l'arte e la poesia, hanno accompagnato il suo viaggio introspettivo alla ricerca di una identità profondamente segnata dalla diaspora Giuliano-Dalmata. L'eco della sua terra di origine e della città di Fiume, dove nacque, accompagna questo viaggio, in un cammino contraddistinto dai diversi confini che ha attraver…
Introduction to Issue
The female image has been under scrutiny in Italy since the Middle Ages. Women were subjected to strict rules that suggested a model of femininity characterized by a modest appearance and behavior.1 Alongside lawmakers, theorists and moralists intervened to regulate women's appearance. Treatises scrutinizing women's bodies, behaviors and education were written with the aim of standardizing women's image and ruled on their makeup, their apparel, a…
Getting ready for the Second World War. Fascist Propaganda and Ideology in L’Avventuroso (1938–40)
In 1938, the Italian Fascist regime enacted legislation banning foreign comics, specifically targeting the children’s press. As a result, publishers like Nerbini had to radically alter their magazines’ contents to align with the regime’s aim of using the children’s press as a tool for indoctrinating Italian youth with Fascist values. This article takes L’Avventuroso as a case study to investigate how Fascist policies influenced children’s media b…
(Bio)Graphic Novels
Over the past decade, the Italian comics landscape has been transformed by autobiographical comic artists like Zerocalcare and Takoua Ben Mohamed, whose works have significantly broadened the comics readership in Italy. The success of these authors, along with the rise of the non-serialised form of the 'graphic novel', has also influenced the production of biographical comics. These comics offer fresh perspectives on the lives of notable figures …
Io so’ Carmela
Comics offer a compelling medium for bearing witness to experiences of trauma, particularly in cases of gender-based violence. Through the interplay of images, text, and colour, comics can convey layered, affective narratives that move beyond depersonalized accounts. Io so’ Carmela is a striking example of this potential: a graphic biographical novel based on the diary of Carmela Cirella, a teenager who took her own life following multiple assaul…
Representing violence against women across Italian media
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Art (6 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Femininity (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)