The Roma in Italian documentary films (2020)
Book Chapter

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

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.

Giuseppe Tornatore: emotion, cognition, cinema (2006)
Book

The nature of the spectator’s emotional and intellectual engagement with films has attracted increasing critical scrutiny over the past decade, and theoretical frameworks have been elaborated to analyse how and why viewers are moved by what they see... Read More about Giuseppe Tornatore: emotion, cognition, cinema.

Italian cinema: new directions (2005)
Book

Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena: an object lesson for a voyeuristic generation (2003)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2003). Giuseppe Tornatore's Malena: an object lesson for a voyeuristic generation

Gabriele Salvatores's Marrakech Express and Mediterraneo: Capitalist dystopias, nascent radicalism, and the Marxist sublime
Journal Article
Hope, W. Gabriele Salvatores's Marrakech Express and Mediterraneo: Capitalist dystopias, nascent radicalism, and the Marxist sublime. Italianist, 115-131. https://doi.org/10.1179/026143409X409819