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Giorgio Bertellini is an Italian naturalized American citizen and film scholar who studies the ways ideas of national and racial stereotypes, whether attached to mass migration, Fascism, or the World Wars, became sources of popular entertainment in cinemas in Italy and in the US. He is currently Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan.

Career
Born in Italy, Bertellini studied philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and cinema studies at New York University where he earned his doctorate in 2001.

In Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (Indiana University Press, 2009), he followed the historical and geographic journeys of an aesthetic form, the picturesque, from 17th century paintings and 18th century prints to turn-of-the-20th-century films, and from Italian to North American racial culture. In the process, he also followed the picturesque’s original subjects, Southern Italians, as both protagonists and consumers of picturesque works. In the end, his research sought to recast established time-centered notions of cinematic modernity by mobilizing pressingly modern notions of geographic variance, racial difference, and migration.

In The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920's America (University of California Press, 2019), he focused on a historically narrower type of Atlantic exchange, the 1920s American popularity of Hollywood star Rudolph Valentino and Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Based again on a wide variety of sources and documents, 'The Divo and the Duce" studied the historical convergences of celebrity culture, charismatic leadership and publicity practices and in the process identified novel relationships between star studies and political science. The volume won the 2020 American Association of Italian Studies book award, for the category "Film/Media." It was also a Co-Winner of the Italian American Studies Association Book Award in 2020 and a finalist for the 2020 LIMINA Award in the category for Best International Film Studies Book.

Editor of an award-winning anthology on Italian silent cinema (2013), Bertellini has also published two monographs, in Italian and English, on the Sarajevo-born filmmaker, Emir Kusturica. His American volume has been translated into Romanian and is due to appear, in part and censorship permitting, in an anthology published by the Chinese Film Publishing House. A contributor to the Washington Post political history blog, "Made by History," and to La Lettura, the cultural supplement of the Corriere della Sera, Bertellini is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies and Co-Editor (with Richard Abel and Matthew Solomon) of the University of California Press book series "Cinema Cultures in Contact."

Affiliations

 * Department of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan
 * Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan

Awards

 * Co-Winner, Italian American Studies Association Book Award, 2020
 * Winner, American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, 2020.
 * Winner, Southwest Popular and American Culture Association’s Peter C. Rollins Book Award/Film and Television, 2015
 * Winner, American Association of Italian Studies Book Award, 2010
 * Winner, Robert K. Martin Prize for Best Book (Canadian Association for American Studies), 2010
 * Finalist, American Studies Association/Lora Romero Book Prize, 2010
 * Finalist, Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, 2010

Published Works

 *  The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. University of California Press, 2019.
 *  Emir Kusturica (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2015.
 *  Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader. John Libbey Publishing, 2013.
 *  Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009.
 *  Early Cinema and the 'National': Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor. (Co-edited with Richard Abel and Rob King). John Libbey Publishing, 2008.
 *  The Cinema of Italy. Wallflower Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1903364994
 *  Emir Kusturica. Milan: Editrice Il Castoro, 1996. ISBN 88-8033-072-1; 2nd expanded ed., 2001 ISBN 978-8880330721