Danielle Hipkins is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter. She is currently completing a monograph on gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema. Other research projects include an AHRC-funded project on Italian cinema-going audiences of the 1940s and 1950s.Roger Pitt was awarded his PhD by the University of Exeter in 2012. His AHRC-funded doctoral research project, ‘Italian Cinema’s Missing Children’, explored the topos of the lost or endangered child in works by six contemporary Italian filmmakers.

• Contents: Danielle Hipkins: The Child in Italian Cinema: An Introduction – Mary P. Wood: The Uses of Children – Lesley Caldwell: Ragazzo Fortunato? Children in Italian Cinema – Robert S.C. Gordon: Pas de Deux: The ‘Situational Ballet’ of Film Fathers-and-Sons – Gábor Gergely: Los Olvidados: A Damning Verdict on Neorealism’s Aesthetic and Moral Positions – Fiona Handyside: Postfeminist (D)au(gh)teurs: Sofia Coppola and the Girl’s Voyage to Italy in Somewhere (2010) – Irene Lottini: From Pinocchio to Cuore: Children in Early Italian Cinema – Louis Bayman: Something Else besides a Man: Melodrama and the Maschietto in Postwar Italian Cinema – Danielle Hipkins: Girls Lost and Found: Daughters of Sin in Italian Melodramas of the 1950s – Roger Pitt: ‘È difficile diventare grandi in Italia!’ The Trauma of Becoming in Nanni Moretti’s La stanza del figlio – Emma Wilson: Un’ora sola ti vorrei: Childhood and Mourning – Alex Marlow-Mann: Subjectivity and the Ethnographic Gaze in Antonio Capuano’s Vito e gli altri – Ella Ide: Boys as Icons of Movement, Potential and Desire in Contemporary Melodramas of Boyhood – Dana Renga: Italian Teen Film and the Female Auteur.

Danielle Hipkins is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter. She is currently completing a monograph on gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema. Other research projects include an AHRC-funded project on Italian cinema-going audiences of the 1940s and 1950s.Roger Pitt was awarded his PhD by the University of Exeter in 2012. His AHRC-funded doctoral research project, ‘Italian Cinema’s Missing Children’, explored the topos of the lost or endangered child in works by six contemporary Italian filmmakers.

• Contents: Danielle Hipkins: The Child in Italian Cinema: An Introduction – Mary P. Wood: The Uses of Children – Lesley Caldwell: Ragazzo Fortunato? Children in Italian Cinema – Robert S.C. Gordon: Pas de Deux: The ‘Situational Ballet’ of Film Fathers-and-Sons – Gábor Gergely: Los Olvidados: A Damning Verdict on Neorealism’s Aesthetic and Moral Positions – Fiona Handyside: Postfeminist (D)au(gh)teurs: Sofia Coppola and the Girl’s Voyage to Italy in Somewhere (2010) – Irene Lottini: From Pinocchio to Cuore: Children in Early Italian Cinema – Louis Bayman: Something Else besides a Man: Melodrama and the Maschietto in Postwar Italian Cinema – Danielle Hipkins: Girls Lost and Found: Daughters of Sin in Italian Melodramas of the 1950s – Roger Pitt: ‘È difficile diventare grandi in Italia!’ The Trauma of Becoming in Nanni Moretti’s La stanza del figlio – Emma Wilson: Un’ora sola ti vorrei: Childhood and Mourning – Alex Marlow-Mann: Subjectivity and the Ethnographic Gaze in Antonio Capuano’s Vito e gli altri – Ella Ide: Boys as Icons of Movement, Potential and Desire in Contemporary Melodramas of Boyhood – Dana Renga: Italian Teen Film and the Female Auteur.

Danielle Hipkins is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter. She is currently completing a monograph on gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema. Other research projects include an AHRC-funded project on Italian cinema-going audiences of the 1940s and 1950s.Roger Pitt was awarded his PhD by the University of Exeter in 2012. His AHRC-funded doctoral research project, ‘Italian Cinema’s Missing Children’, explored the topos of the lost or endangered child in works by six contemporary Italian filmmakers.

• Contents: Danielle Hipkins: The Child in Italian Cinema: An Introduction – Mary P. Wood: The Uses of Children – Lesley Caldwell: Ragazzo Fortunato? Children in Italian Cinema – Robert S.C. Gordon: Pas de Deux: The ‘Situational Ballet’ of Film Fathers-and-Sons – Gábor Gergely: Los Olvidados: A Damning Verdict on Neorealism’s Aesthetic and Moral Positions – Fiona Handyside: Postfeminist (D)au(gh)teurs: Sofia Coppola and the Girl’s Voyage to Italy in Somewhere (2010) – Irene Lottini: From Pinocchio to Cuore: Children in Early Italian Cinema – Louis Bayman: Something Else besides a Man: Melodrama and the Maschietto in Postwar Italian Cinema – Danielle Hipkins: Girls Lost and Found: Daughters of Sin in Italian Melodramas of the 1950s – Roger Pitt: ‘È difficile diventare grandi in Italia!’ The Trauma of Becoming in Nanni Moretti’s La stanza del figlio – Emma Wilson: Un’ora sola ti vorrei: Childhood and Mourning – Alex Marlow-Mann: Subjectivity and the Ethnographic Gaze in Antonio Capuano’s Vito e gli altri – Ella Ide: Boys as Icons of Movement, Potential and Desire in Contemporary Melodramas of Boyhood – Dana Renga: Italian Teen Film and the Female Auteur.