Grazie! Feel like my self-expression could have been edited a big here but anyway..
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Grazie! Feel like my self-expression could have been edited a big here but anyway..
Cover of book Film Studios in Britain France Germany and Italy
This baby finally arrived! Open access www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
‘Based off of’ rather than ‘based on’ has become very popular among students, I regret to say
The big man is 122! #carygrant
Gotta get in the mood
Image of bottle of prosecco and cake with photo on top of book cover for Contemporary Italian Youth TV book, ed Luca Barra, Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O’Rawe and Dana Renga.
Celebrating our book! (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Any good?
Love your reviews though Ellie’s routines were barely discussed last week or this in them? Shame as I love her
I just hope Ellie doesn’t see the horrible comments about her that interest the internet 🙁
Julian and Vito considering all the years of ballroom training that went into them wearing cardboard boxes on their heads while Neil flies in like an avenging Garth
Ratio of TikTok-making to dancing?
Hard day at the Film Festival coalface
‘One Generic Soap Hunk please!’
Am wondering if ‘Ellie Gouldstein’ is a deliberate attempt to manifest an Ellie Goulding late entry (perhaps in place of a certain Bosh Merchant)?
I do think so much will depend on pairings (duh) re getting to the final. Are you paired with Vito or Neil?
The master.
I read this lovely novel by Joseph O’Connor, about Bram Stoker’s relationship with Henry Irving: then then next day I noticed the plaque in Stokes Croft
Amazing dress
Lovely review of my book in Screen by Francesco Pitassio ☺️
academic.oup.com/screen/artic...
Picture of beach near Lecce
Padre Pio looking menacing in statue form
Ex monastery cloister
Shrine in Lecce to the BVM with ‘ave Maria’ inscription
Lecce. Love a beach, love a shrine, love a Padre Pio statue ❤️
Photo of Enzo Staiola from Bicycle Thieves (1948)
R.I.P Enzo Staiola, maybe THE face of Italian neorealism after Bicycle Thieves. I’m quoted in this Washington Post obituary of him archive.ph/fydat
The first review of my book has appeared: a long, thoughtful and generous one from @clliv.bsky.social.which is nice. intellectdiscover-com.bris.idm.oclc.org/content/jour...
Karen Joy Fowler’s novel about John Wilkes Booth and his family is marvellous. I read it after managing to finish a mammoth bio of Lincoln so can now call myself a 19th-century Americanist
NYC, baby! (Sadly Audra didn’t perform, but Gypsy still a great show)
The documentary pulled by the BBC, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone can be viewed here. Powerful stuff rumble.com/v6nm6n9-bbc-...
Cover of Your Little Matter book by Maria Grazia Calandrone
Maria Grazia Calandrone’s Dove non mi hai portata, her account of being abandoned as a baby, and her reconstruction of post-war Italy and her mother’s life, is stupendous. Read here in the translation by Antonella Lettieri for Foundry Editions.
No Other Land on C4 tomorrow night. Save the date
Highly recommend No Other Land. Beautiful and enraging. Streaming on YouTube youtu.be/Y_aKPLEHkv4?...
I loved Sing Sing, which falls into the ‘doing drama in prison’ genre: Colman Domingo is outstanding alongside formerly incarcerated alumni of the theatre rehabilitation programme. Give him the Oscar!
Book launch poster. Catherine O’Rawe author of The Non-professional Actor and Miguel Gaggiotti, author of Nonprofessional Film Performance. Friday 7 Feb, 6pm UK. Moderated by Catherine Russell
I’ll be doing an author talk/book launch with Miguel Gaggiotti next Friday 6pm UK time @miguelgaggiotti.bsky.social
georgiasouthern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...