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Sergio Rigoletto is Assistant Professor of Film Studies. Prior to his current appointment at the University of Groningen, he was Associate Professor in Cinema Studies and Italian at the University of Oregon, USA.
His research focuses on the politics of film aesthetics and its relation to social change, queer media cultures, international television, stars and performance studies and several aspects of Italian cinema.
Writing in both English and Italian, he is the author of two books:
- Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh University Press: 2014)
- Le norme traviate (Meltemi: 2020).
In 2013, he co-edited an anthology titled Popular Italian Cinema (Palgrave).
Sergio Rigoletto’s most recent publications include an essay on questions around difference and spectrality in Call Me by Your Name (in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) and another essay on Xavier Dolan's idiosyncratic use of musical parentheses (in the New Review of Film and Television Studies).
He is currently writing a book on film star Anna Magnani and a second monograph provisionally titled Queer from the South: Film, Video and Media Activism.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Reading
MA, Birkbeck College, London
BA/MA, University of Catania, Italy
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On Xavier Dolan’s musical parentheses
Rigoletto, S., 2023, In: New Review of Film and Television Studies . 21, 2, p. 158-186 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Universality, Difference and Spectrality in Call Me by Your Name
Rigoletto, S., 2023, In: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 62, 4, p. 57-79 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Ri-politicizzare la mascolinità: Bernardo Bertolucci, gli anni Settanta e la morte dell’autore
Rigoletto, S., 2022, Oltre l’inetto? Rappresentazioni plurali della mascolinità nel cinema italiano. Saponari, A. B. & Zecca, F. (eds.). Milan: Meltemi Press, p. 89-102 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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De-centrare lo sguardo: il caso di Mediterranea e l’idea di un cinema non più del ‘nostro’ paese
Rigoletto, S., 2021, In: La valle dell'Eden. 37, p. 61-70 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Le norme traviate: Saggi sul cinema e la televisione italiana
Rigoletto, S., 2020, Meltemi Press. 174 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic › peer-review