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Giorgio Bertellini (Ph.D, NYU) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures and the Department of Romance Languages. He just completed a three-year position as a Fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows. Educated in Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy), he is the editor of an anthology (1995) and author of a monograph (1996) on the Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica. More recently, he has been the editor of a special issue of Film History on "Early Italian Cinema" (2000), which he is now expanding into a book-length anthology. Bertellini has also published extensively on silent film history, Italian and Italian American film culture in numerous periodicals (Film History, Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, KINtop, NEMLA Italian Studies, Comunicazioni Sociali, The Italian American Review) and in several anthologies (American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era; Suburban Disciplines; Le Cinéma en histoire. Institution cinématographique, réception filmique et reconstitution historique; Storia del cinema mondiale; Diviso in Due: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema e Cultura Popolare; Fritz Lang's Metropolis: Cinematic Views of Technology and Fear; Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943; The Italians of New York; A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture; and Consumo e pubblico del cinema in Italia). He is currently working on a manuscript on the film experience of Southern Italians living in Italy and in New York from the turn of the century to WWI and he is editing an anthology, 24 Frames:A Guide to Italian Cinema, for the London-based publisher Wallflower Press. Frequent contributor to Italian and Italian American daily newspapers, Bertellini has taught film studies at New York University, CUNY Queens College, The School of Visual Arts, Manhattan Marymount College, and at the University of California at Davis. At U-M, he is teaching classes on American cinema and ethnicity, with specific reference to the representation of Italian-Americans, and on the history of Italian and Eastern European cinemas. back |
