Susanna Scarparo
Biographic Data
| ID | 636775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanna Scarparo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarparo |
| SIGNATURE | SCARPARO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4462-999X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artemisia
In 1985, the Florentine daily La Nazione announced the death of Anna Banti with the heading “Addio Artemisia!” (Wood 119). Although Banti published many other novels, short stories, and art history essays, Artemisia was, and still is, her best-known work and arguably the source of her popularity.The controversial Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and died around 1653 in Naples. Until the 1970s, she was generally consi…
Transcultural flows and marginality
Hip hop, reggae/raggamuffin, and fusions between these genres, emerged in the Italian island of Sardinia in the 1980s and 1990s. In this article, we examine the ways in which these transnational music forms have found fertile terrain in post-colonial Sardinia across generations and cultures through the music of the historic hip hop crew, Sa Razza, the next generation ‘rappamuffin’ artist, Randagiu Sardu, and the Senegalese-Sardinian Afro-reggae m…
A new dawn on the past
Through a discussion of Susanna Nichiarelli’s La scoperta dell’alba (The Discovery of Dawn, 2012), the article contends that historical films that do not centre their narratives around the homosocial and heterosexual male-quest, even if employing a conventional cinematic style, allow us to rethink national histories, trauma and contested memories, as they shift the focus to female subjectivities that are often marginalised in Italian historical f…
Mothers, Daughters and Family in Goliarda Sapienza’sl’arte Della Gioia
This article discusses Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia, which many Italian critics have hailed as the new Gattopardo. The novel was written over nine years, from 1967 to 1976, but for over two decades Sapienza failed to find a publisher. Two years after the author’s death in 1996, the small publisher Stampa Alternativa printed 1,000 copies of the novel. Ten year later, L’arte della gioia Gioia was published in Germany and France where it e…
Directing Terramatta; . An interview with Costanza Quatriglio
This interview with Costanza Quatriglio offers insights into the making of the documentary film Terramatta;. She answers questions about the filmic language she used to evoke the situations Vincenzo Rabito described in his autobiography and discusses links between her filmmaking and the oral tradition and the importance of understanding what Vincenzo Rabito's language meant to him. She explains how she selected the episodes from the autobiography…
Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen
Performing the invisible past
All of Costanza Quatriglio's films – her shorts, feature films and feature-length documentaries – are either journeys in search of marginalized and invisible subjects or psychological explorations of the invisible aspects of visible individuals. In Terramatta; Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano (2012), Quatriglio continues her inquiry into invisible subjects and uses the story of an ‘invisibile’ (as she defines Rabito) …
Reframing Italy
In the Name of the Mother
In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power
Vite sospese
Forms of 'otherness' and marginalized sectors of society are prevailing social themes in contemporary Italian documentaries. Women directors are increasingly exploring how to represent transnational mobility. Their documentaries draw attention to the complexity and cultural specificity of migration experiences from different locations of origin and at different times. In this article, we focus on two documentaries that engage with such complexiti…
Gendering mobility and migration in contemporary Italian cinema
Immigrants from Eastern European, Asian and African countries and subsequent cultural production reflecting on cross-cultural encounters within the national borders arrived later in Italy than in other Western European countries. Only in the past few decades has Italy dramatically transformed from a nation of emigrants to a destination culture for immigrants and only since the 1990s have I t a lia n fi lmma ker s t u r ned t heir at t ent ion t o…
Feminist intellectuals as public figures in contemporary Italy1
Sono uno storico in quanto scrittore
Rinascimento Privato, first published in 1985, confirmed Maria Belllonci as one of the most accomplished Italian writers of historical novels. It recounts the story of Isabella d'Este's life through the eyes and words of its heroine, who becomes both a historical figure and a fictional character. The book has been celebrated as a compelling fictional history that uses its protagonist to explore the nature of the Italian Renaissance. 1 Yet Rinasci…
Artemisia
In the Name of the Mother
In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power
Mothers, Daughters and Family in Goliarda Sapienza’sl’arte Della Gioia
This article discusses Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia, which many Italian critics have hailed as the new Gattopardo. The novel was written over nine years, from 1967 to 1976, but for over two decades Sapienza failed to find a publisher. Two years after the author’s death in 1996, the small publisher Stampa Alternativa printed 1,000 copies of the novel. Ten year later, L’arte della gioia Gioia was published in Germany and France where it e…
Gendering mobility and migration in contemporary Italian cinema
Immigrants from Eastern European, Asian and African countries and subsequent cultural production reflecting on cross-cultural encounters within the national borders arrived later in Italy than in other Western European countries. Only in the past few decades has Italy dramatically transformed from a nation of emigrants to a destination culture for immigrants and only since the 1990s have I t a lia n fi lmma ker s t u r ned t heir at t ent ion t o…
Feminist intellectuals as public figures in contemporary Italy1
Artemisia
Sono uno storico in quanto scrittore
Rinascimento Privato, first published in 1985, confirmed Maria Belllonci as one of the most accomplished Italian writers of historical novels. It recounts the story of Isabella d'Este's life through the eyes and words of its heroine, who becomes both a historical figure and a fictional character. The book has been celebrated as a compelling fictional history that uses its protagonist to explore the nature of the Italian Renaissance. 1 Yet Rinasci…
Artemisia
Feminist intellectuals as public figures in contemporary Italy1
Vite sospese
Forms of 'otherness' and marginalized sectors of society are prevailing social themes in contemporary Italian documentaries. Women directors are increasingly exploring how to represent transnational mobility. Their documentaries draw attention to the complexity and cultural specificity of migration experiences from different locations of origin and at different times. In this article, we focus on two documentaries that engage with such complexiti…
Gendering mobility and migration in contemporary Italian cinema
Immigrants from Eastern European, Asian and African countries and subsequent cultural production reflecting on cross-cultural encounters within the national borders arrived later in Italy than in other Western European countries. Only in the past few decades has Italy dramatically transformed from a nation of emigrants to a destination culture for immigrants and only since the 1990s have I t a lia n fi lmma ker s t u r ned t heir at t ent ion t o…
Reframing Italy
In the Name of the Mother
In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power
Directing Terramatta; . An interview with Costanza Quatriglio
This interview with Costanza Quatriglio offers insights into the making of the documentary film Terramatta;. She answers questions about the filmic language she used to evoke the situations Vincenzo Rabito described in his autobiography and discusses links between her filmmaking and the oral tradition and the importance of understanding what Vincenzo Rabito's language meant to him. She explains how she selected the episodes from the autobiography…
Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen
Performing the invisible past
All of Costanza Quatriglio's films – her shorts, feature films and feature-length documentaries – are either journeys in search of marginalized and invisible subjects or psychological explorations of the invisible aspects of visible individuals. In Terramatta; Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano (2012), Quatriglio continues her inquiry into invisible subjects and uses the story of an ‘invisibile’ (as she defines Rabito) …
Mothers, Daughters and Family in Goliarda Sapienza’sl’arte Della Gioia
This article discusses Goliarda Sapienza’s L’arte della gioia, which many Italian critics have hailed as the new Gattopardo. The novel was written over nine years, from 1967 to 1976, but for over two decades Sapienza failed to find a publisher. Two years after the author’s death in 1996, the small publisher Stampa Alternativa printed 1,000 copies of the novel. Ten year later, L’arte della gioia Gioia was published in Germany and France where it e…
A new dawn on the past
Through a discussion of Susanna Nichiarelli’s La scoperta dell’alba (The Discovery of Dawn, 2012), the article contends that historical films that do not centre their narratives around the homosocial and heterosexual male-quest, even if employing a conventional cinematic style, allow us to rethink national histories, trauma and contested memories, as they shift the focus to female subjectivities that are often marginalised in Italian historical f…
Transcultural flows and marginality
Hip hop, reggae/raggamuffin, and fusions between these genres, emerged in the Italian island of Sardinia in the 1980s and 1990s. In this article, we examine the ways in which these transnational music forms have found fertile terrain in post-colonial Sardinia across generations and cultures through the music of the historic hip hop crew, Sa Razza, the next generation ‘rappamuffin’ artist, Randagiu Sardu, and the Senegalese-Sardinian Afro-reggae m…
Artemisia
In 1985, the Florentine daily La Nazione announced the death of Anna Banti with the heading “Addio Artemisia!” (Wood 119). Although Banti published many other novels, short stories, and art history essays, Artemisia was, and still is, her best-known work and arguably the source of her popularity.The controversial Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome in 1593 and died around 1653 in Naples. Until the 1970s, she was generally consi…
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Italian Literature and Culture (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)