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The Roma in Italian documentary films (2020)
Book Chapter
Hope, W. (2020). The Roma in Italian documentary films. In R. Mladenova, T. von Borcke, P. Brunssen, M. End, & A. Reuss (Eds.), Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film (209-222). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.650

An overview of Italian new millennium documentary films that feature the Roma and analyse their rapport with Italian society.

Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2 (2014)
Book
(2014). W. Hope, S. Serra, & L. D'arcangeli (Eds.), Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing

This volume examines representations of social, historical and political issues in contemporary Italian cinema, focusing on the following themes: Italy’s socio-political past as depicted on screen; filmic representations of the Italian State, institu... Read More about Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2.

The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie (2009)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2009). The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie. Studies in European Cinema, 5(3), 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1386/seci.5.3.185_1

This article examines how, in the films Puerto Escondido (1992) and Nirvana(1997), Salvatores reworks the paranoid conspiracy thriller and science fiction genre to explore radical and unexpected shifts in the social position of the middle classes as... Read More about The cinema of Gabriele Salvatores: the discreet alienation of the bourgeoisie.