Giorgio Bertellini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4496937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giorgio Bertellini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giorgio |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertellini |
| SIGNATURE | BERTELLINI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9183-1517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the effor…
Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands
Not all Orientalist narratives are alike. The most familiar ones have often appeared as articulations of confident Western imperial or national identities. However, writers from the Italian peninsu
Dramatizing the Italian-Turkish War (1911–12): Reports of atrocities, newsreels, and epic films in Italy and the USA
In discussions about warfare and modern media mobilization, the so-called Italian-Turkish War (1911–12) stands as a largely ignored case study. This essay examines its remarkable and yet often understudied media currency in newspapers and film periodicals across the Atlantic in relationship to conflicting news about Italian crimes against local populations. Filtered through the concomitant rise of newsreel and feature-length film productions, ear…
The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema
The essay discusses contemporary Italian filmmakers’ sustained interest in the representation of national landscapes and physical environments as revelatory settings of defacement of the nation’s geo-cultural patrimony. Whether historical costume dramas, documentaries, or high-class melodramas, Martone’s Noi credevamo, Guzzanti’s Draquila, and even Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore, among others, have exposed comparable forms of spatial and anthropolo…
Duce/Divo: Masculinity, Racial Identity, and Politics among Italian Americans in 1920s New York City
This article compares the politics and masculinity of two Italian men—political leader Benito Mussolini and immigrant film star Rodolfo Valentino—who in the early 1920s arguably became the first important media “stars” for New York’s growing Italian American population. Rather than mere icons of a predetermined and “given” Italianness, the two men’s simultaneous popularity, representing such differing political beliefs and embodying such starkly …
Black hands and white hearts: Italian immigrants as ‘urban racial types’ in early American film culture
Through the concept of ‘character’ or ‘urban racial type’, traversing literature, science and metropolitan life, Bertellini reconsiders early American cinema's colour-based biracialism epitomized by D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In the New York-based film industry race also emerged from the city's dense intermingling of ‘white ethnics’ and broader shifts in epistemological emphasis – from inheritance to the environment. If Italian…
Duce/Divo: Masculinity, Racial Identity, and Politics among Italian Americans in 1920s New York City
This article compares the politics and masculinity of two Italian men—political leader Benito Mussolini and immigrant film star Rodolfo Valentino—who in the early 1920s arguably became the first important media “stars” for New York’s growing Italian American population. Rather than mere icons of a predetermined and “given” Italianness, the two men’s simultaneous popularity, representing such differing political beliefs and embodying such starkly …
Black hands and white hearts: Italian immigrants as ‘urban racial types’ in early American film culture
Through the concept of ‘character’ or ‘urban racial type’, traversing literature, science and metropolitan life, Bertellini reconsiders early American cinema's colour-based biracialism epitomized by D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In the New York-based film industry race also emerged from the city's dense intermingling of ‘white ethnics’ and broader shifts in epistemological emphasis – from inheritance to the environment. If Italian…
The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema
The essay discusses contemporary Italian filmmakers’ sustained interest in the representation of national landscapes and physical environments as revelatory settings of defacement of the nation’s geo-cultural patrimony. Whether historical costume dramas, documentaries, or high-class melodramas, Martone’s Noi credevamo, Guzzanti’s Draquila, and even Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore, among others, have exposed comparable forms of spatial and anthropolo…
Black hands and white hearts: Italian immigrants as ‘urban racial types’ in early American film culture
Through the concept of ‘character’ or ‘urban racial type’, traversing literature, science and metropolitan life, Bertellini reconsiders early American cinema's colour-based biracialism epitomized by D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In the New York-based film industry race also emerged from the city's dense intermingling of ‘white ethnics’ and broader shifts in epistemological emphasis – from inheritance to the environment. If Italian…
Duce/Divo: Masculinity, Racial Identity, and Politics among Italian Americans in 1920s New York City
This article compares the politics and masculinity of two Italian men—political leader Benito Mussolini and immigrant film star Rodolfo Valentino—who in the early 1920s arguably became the first important media “stars” for New York’s growing Italian American population. Rather than mere icons of a predetermined and “given” Italianness, the two men’s simultaneous popularity, representing such differing political beliefs and embodying such starkly …
The Earth Still Trembles: On Landscape Views in Contemporary Italian Cinema
The essay discusses contemporary Italian filmmakers’ sustained interest in the representation of national landscapes and physical environments as revelatory settings of defacement of the nation’s geo-cultural patrimony. Whether historical costume dramas, documentaries, or high-class melodramas, Martone’s Noi credevamo, Guzzanti’s Draquila, and even Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore, among others, have exposed comparable forms of spatial and anthropolo…
Dramatizing the Italian-Turkish War (1911–12): Reports of atrocities, newsreels, and epic films in Italy and the USA
In discussions about warfare and modern media mobilization, the so-called Italian-Turkish War (1911–12) stands as a largely ignored case study. This essay examines its remarkable and yet often understudied media currency in newspapers and film periodicals across the Atlantic in relationship to conflicting news about Italian crimes against local populations. Filtered through the concomitant rise of newsreel and feature-length film productions, ear…
Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands
Not all Orientalist narratives are alike. The most familiar ones have often appeared as articulations of confident Western imperial or national identities. However, writers from the Italian peninsu
The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the effor…
History (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)