Mauro Resmini received his Ph.D. from the Departments of Italian Studies and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in 2014. He is the author of a monograph on the work of Steven Spielberg (Il Castoro Cinema, 2014) and has published essays on Italian and European cinema and media, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. He is currently finishing a manuscript titled Figures of the Impasse: Italian Political Cinema and the Long '68, under contract with University of Minnesota Press.
Books:
Steven Spielberg (Editrice Il Castoro, 2014) (in Italian).
Articles:
“Periodizing Drama: Appunti su The Deuce,” in La grande Storia e il piccolo schermo, Andrea Bellavita, ed. (Milan: Mimesis, forthcoming in 2020) (in Italian).
“The Worker as Figure: On Elio Petri’s The Working Class Goes to Heaven,” Diacritics Vol. 46, No. 4 (2019).
“Asymmetries of Desire: Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom,” in The Unwatchable, Maggie Hennefeld et al., eds. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019).
“Obscurity, Anthologized: Non-Relation and Enjoyment in Love and Anger (1969),” in 1968 and Global Cinema, Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, eds. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018).
“‘What Does It Mean to Be a Communist Today?’ Nanni Moretti’s Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films,” in The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, Caroline Eades and Elizabeth Papazian, eds. (New York: Wallflower – Columbia University Press, 2016).
“‘Il Senso dell’intreccio’: History, Totality, and Collective Agency in Romanzo Criminale,’ The Italianist Vol. 36, No. 2 (Fall 2016).
“Re-Framing the New French Extremity: Cinema, Theory, Mediation,” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 90, Vol. 30, No. 3 (December 2015), 161-187.
“The Italian Turn. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Aesthetics,” American Imago 70, No. 2 (Summer 2013), 271-297.
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Teaching:
ITAL436/FILM441 Italian Cinema I
ITAL473/FILM431 Italian Cinema II
ITAL499J/FILM429J Terrorism and Political Violence in Italy
FILM245 Film Form and Culture
FILM302 History of Cinema: The Sound Era
FILM319D The Geopolitics of Contemporary Storytelling
FILM329R The Mafia: From Corleone to Hollywood
FILM369A Post-war Film Theory
CMLT679I/FREN699C/GERM689C/SLLC698C Comparative Media Studies: History, Theory, Culture
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