Giorgio Bertellini Explained

Giorgio Bertellini
Birth Name:	Giorgio Bertellini
Birth Date:	May 13, 1967
Birth Place:	Mantua, Italy
Nationality:	American and Italian
Alma Mater:	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore New York University
Occupation:	Professor of Film at University of Michigan

Giorgio Bertellini an Italian-American media historian who specializes in the ways national and racial diversity informed American cinema's representation of citizenship, stardom, and leadership during the era of migrations, fascism, and World War II. He is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan.^[1]

Life

Born in Mantua, Italy, Bertellini studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and earned his Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He moved to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2001 as a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows ^[2] and is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the same institution with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Romance Languages. He was the Sargent-Faull Fellow ^[3] at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2007-08) and a Tiro a Segno Fellow ^[4] in New York University's Italian Studies department.

Recognition

His work twice received the American Association of Italian Studies ^[5] book award for film and media (2010 and 2020). His other book awards include the Robert K. Martin Best Book Prize (Canadian Association for American Studies,^[6] 2010), the Peter C. Rollins Book Award (Southwest Popular and American Culture Association,^[7] 2015), the IASA Book Award (Italian American Studies Association,^[8] 2020), and the Premio Internazionale di Letteratura Città di Como,^[9] 2023). His work has been supported by the American Philosophical Association, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. In 2022, he was selected as one of 180 Guggenheim fellows, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation-sponsored scholarship.^[10]

Works

• The Cinema of Italy. Wallflower Press, 2004/2007. ^[11] .
• Early Cinema and the 'National': Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor. (Co-edited with Richard Abel and Rob King). John Libbey Publishing, 2008.
• Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009.^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}
• Emir Kusturica (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2015. Milan: Editrice Il Castoro, 1996. ; 2nd expanded ed., 2001 ; English Edition: Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2015.^[16] ; Romanian Edition: Bucharest: IBU Publishing, 2017.
• Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader. John Libbey Publishing, 2013.^{[17] [18]}
• The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. University of California Press, 2019.^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]}
• Il Divo e il Duce. Fama, politica e pubblicità nell'America degli anni Venti. Florence: Le Monnier, 2022. ^[25]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Giorgio Bertellini | U-M LSA Department of Film, Television, and Media. lsa.umich.edu.
2. Web site: University of Michigan Society of Fellows webpage.
3. Web site: Giorgio Bertellini's Radcliffe Institute webpage.
4. Web site: Tiro a Segno Fellowship Information Page.
5. Web site: American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize Announcements - 2019 entry.
6. Web site: Canadian Association for American Studies. Canadian Association for American Studies.
7. Web site: Rollins Book Award | Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.
8. Web site: IASA Winners - 2020 Book Award List. Italian American Studies Association.
9. Web site: Premio Internazionale Città di Como - Vincitori X Edizione.
10. Web site: Giorgio Bertellini, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation page.
11. The Cinema of Italy by Giorgio Bertellini, ed. (London: Wallflower Press, 2004). Piero. Garofalo. January 1, 2007. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. 24. 1. 92–97. Taylor and Francis+NEJM. 10.1080/10509200500486106. 194080582.
12. Web site: Robert Gordon, "Film History Recut," Times Literary Supplement, July 1, 2011, 28. .
13. Web site: ROROTOKO : Giorgio Bertellini On his book Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque : Cutting-Edge Intellectual Interviews. rorotoko.com.
14. QUADERNI STORICI Reviews of IEAC by Silvio Alovisio and Ferdinando Fasce. Silvio. Alovisio. Ferdinando. Fasce. Giorgio. Bertellini. Quaderni Storici. January 2014 . www.academia.edu.
15. Richard Abel's Review of Italy in Early American Cinema (Film History 2010). Giorgio. Bertellini. Film History . 22 . 3 . January 2010 . www.academia.edu.
16. Andrew Horton, Slavic Review, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Winter 2015): 923-924. 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. 165133761.
17. Gaetana Marrone, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol.2, no.3 (2014): 445-447.. 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. 10.5612/slavicreview.74.4.923. 165133761.
18. Kelsey E. Moore, Film & History, vol.47, no.1 (Summer 2017): 83-84.. Film & History . January 2017 . Bertellini . Giorgio . doi: 10.1386/jicms.2.3.443_5.
19. Piero Garofalo, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol.8, no.1 (2020): 162-165.. The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies . January 2020 . Bertellini . Giorgio . doi: 10.1386/jicms_00014_5
20. 3. 10.1080/01439685.2020.1865681. Nicolas Suárez, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in the 1920s," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 2020. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 28 December 2020. 582–584. Suárez. Nicolás. 41 . 234399060 .
21. News: Giorgio Bertellini, "When Americans Loved Mussolini—and what it tells us about Donald Trump's rise," Washington Post/Made by History, Feb. 28, 2019.. .
22. Intervista per LA LETTURA (Corriere della Sera) 2019_03_10. Giorgio. Bertellini. La Lettura . January 2019 . www.academia.edu.
23. Review of D/D by Giuliana Muscio, IL MANIFESTO / ALIAS. Giorgio. Bertellini. Il Manifesto/ALIAS. January 2019 . www.academia.edu.
24. Desmond O'Grady, "Macho men: The links between Valentino and Mussolini," The Sydney Morning Herald, June 14, 2019.. Sydney Morning Herald. Bertellini. Giorgio. January 2019.
25. Web site: Book information page in Italian.