- Silvia Vacirca è una storica interessata al rapporto tra il cinema, la moda e le arti. Svolge attività di docenza in ... moreSilvia Vacirca è una storica interessata al rapporto tra il cinema, la moda e le arti. Svolge attività di docenza in inglese presso Sapienza, Università di Roma (Fashion in Audiovisuals), RUFA Rome Academy of Fine Arts (Fashion History) e NABA Nuova Accademia di belle arti (Fashion Publishing).
Assegnista di ricerca all’Università degli studi di Parma nel progetto PRIN 2022 “Cinephemera. Ephemeral materials for the study of Italian cinema between the 1930s and 1960s”, è autrice di "Fashioning Submission. Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy Through ‘Bellezza’ Magazine" (Mimesis International 2023).
Nel 2013 ha vinto il Premio Limina per la traduzione in italiano di "Storytelling in Film and Television" di Kristin Thompson (Harvard UP 2003).
Dopo aver conseguito, nel 2021, il titolo di Dottore di ricerca in Storia dell’Europa in Sapienza Università di Roma, dal 2021 al 2023 ha preso parte al Progetto PRIN 2017 “FACTOR. Forme dell’attorialità mediale contemporanea. Formazione, professionalizzazione, discorsi sociali in Italia (2000-2020)”.
Ha partecipato a numerosi convegni internazionali e ha pubblicato su riviste accademiche come Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti, ZoneModa Journal, Film, Fashion & Consumption, Studies in Costume & Performance e Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies.
Coordinatrice editoriale della rivista scientifica "Ultracorpi", fa parte di SISSCO (Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea), CUC (Consulta Universitaria del Cinema) e dell’executive committee di INC (Italian Research Network in Celebrity Studies).edit - Sara Martinedit
The history of "Bellezza Rivista mensile dell'alta moda e di vita italiana," the first Italian high fashion magazine launched by Ente Nazionale della Moda together with Gio Ponti in 1941 - while war was raging in Europe.
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This article is the result of a one-year period of research that I conducted at the University of Udine regarding ‘F-ACTOR Forme dell’attorialità mediale contemporanea: Formazione, professionalizzazione, discorsi sociali in Italia... more
This article is the result of a one-year period of research that I conducted at the University of Udine regarding ‘F-ACTOR Forme dell’attorialità mediale contemporanea: Formazione, professionalizzazione, discorsi sociali in Italia (2000–2020)’ (‘Forms of contemporary media acting: Formation, professionalization, social discourses in Italy 2000–2020’) 1 which focused on young, Italian actors of the so-called ‘Generation Z’. My research has produced results – for which an empirical sociological study based on a much larger sample would be necessary – that highlight some possible lines of research regarding the relationship between ‘Generation Z’, the acting profession, the audio-visual industry and gender representations in Italy: how luxury fashion brands are fabricating masculinity through the sponsoring of prestigious film festivals, the relationship between the melodramatic imagination and media representations of youth culture, how the new centrality of streaming platforms is affecting the Italian media landscape and content, the lack of diversity in Italian young adult content and the media industry in general. My research encountered difficulties in contacting young actresses – who I consider an integral part of my research results – compared to young male actors, who I managed to interview in even greater numbers than required by the research project. Another reason why my research is focused mainly on young male actors is because they are effectively dominating the contemporary Italian young adult content. Before introducing the specific results of my research, I will begin with an introduction to ‘Generation Z’ and a panoramic view on Italian masculinity and its relationship to contemporary masculinities and fashion.
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Unlike many Hollywood stars of her generation, Barbara Stanwyck extended and diversified her film career during the 1950s by starring in numerous B-series westerns, where her dominant image of independent, tough woman, questioned the... more
Unlike many Hollywood stars of her generation, Barbara Stanwyck extended and diversified her film career during the 1950s by starring in numerous B-series westerns, where her dominant image of independent, tough woman, questioned the limits of gender and genre. Postwar Hollywood production system changed and veteran film stars were less in demand. This paper aims to investigate the role of Barbara Stanwick as “mature women’s role model”. If it is true that her maturity, emphasized by premature gray hair and the refusal to dye them, influenced her roles and transformed her into a model for mature women, aging certainly not helped fostering her film career. As the scholar Susan Hayward states, “aging is too real — not the ‘real we want to see’” (1996, p. 340). Moreover, Stanwyck’s fascination with the western genre is consistent with his image as a mature woman with Republican tendencies. In 1973, she was the first woman to be included in the “Hall of Fame of Great Western Performers” at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Keywords: Hollywood Stardom; Gender and Ageing; Emotional Acting; Models of Womanhood; Glamourizing Ageing.
Keywords: Hollywood Stardom; Gender and Ageing; Emotional Acting; Models of Womanhood; Glamourizing Ageing.
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Alice Pagani, protagonist of Netflix "Baby", is a young Italian multi-talented girl. The emblem of a emerging breed of Italian prosaic goddesses of a new mediated cult of beautiful girlhood who's very good at exploiting the pleasures and... more
Alice Pagani, protagonist of Netflix "Baby", is a young Italian multi-talented girl. The emblem of a emerging breed of Italian prosaic goddesses of a new mediated cult of beautiful girlhood who's very good at exploiting the pleasures and boredom of late capitalist culture to make money.
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Interview to Massimiliano Giornetti, Fabio Piras and Ben Barry on the future of fashion education.
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For the Best Translation of the Year in Film Studies
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With Elisa Palomino
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With Sara Pesce
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RUFA Rome University of Fine Arts, Via Libetta 7, Rome
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Storia della moda (Prof.ssa Alessandra Vaccari), IUAV, Venice
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Research Seminar DRESS CODES 10, Institute française de la mode, Paris