Giovanna De Luca is Assistant Professor of Italian at College of Charleston. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialization in Italian and a certificate in Film Studies. Her focus is modern and contemporary Italian literature, Italian and French cinema after World War II, comparative literature, literary and film theory, and cultural studies. She is the winner of the Best Essay Fellowship from the Grand Marnier-New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center competition (1999). Her articles have appeared in Filmcritica, Film Comment, Quaderni d'Italianistica and Italica. She also authored four encyclopedia entries for The Encyclopedia of Italian Studies, published by Routledge. Dr. De Luca is currently working on her book: Il punto di vista infantile nel cinema italiano e francese: nuove prospettive which considers the role of the child in Italian and French cinema. It’s scheduled for publication by Liguori Editore in 2008.

Film links:
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Cinecittà
La rivista del cinema
Ottoemezzo

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