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Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space (2022)
Journal Article
Li, S., Li, Q., & Hope, W. (2022). Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 9(2), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2022.2106068

This study incorporates House's TQA framework into corpus-based translation studies to evaluate how Jane Austen's depictions of food have been translated and perceived within Chinese contexts. This study’s dataset includes a Jane Austen corpus in Eng... Read More about Translating (and rewriting) Jane Austen’s food across time and space.

The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. (2016)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2016). The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation. Italianist, 36(2), 266-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2016.1178889

The Roma endow films with a strong political resonance through their exposure to micro- and macro-level discrimination and reactionary populism in contemporary Italy. A socio-political evolution can be traced in the way new millennium Italian fiction... Read More about The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation..

The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic (2016)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2016). The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 4(1), 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.4.1.63_1

Since the new millennium, approximately thirty Italian documentaries have focused on the Roma, Sinti and other more tendentially nomadic groups. Drawing on writings by theorists including Spivak and Parati, this article contends that many documentari... Read More about The Roma on screen : voicing the counter-hegemonic.

Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (2015)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2015). Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen. View finder (London), 29-29

Book review of an edited volume that applies Marxist theory and criticism - in the context of philosophy, politics and literature - to shed light on the production and reception of films from the past century.

Now playing : Politics (2014)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2014). Now playing : Politics

An overview of the creation of political cinema in Italy over the past twenty years by directors such as Daniele Vicari and Sabina Guzzanti.

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.

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.