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Authors: Paolo Villa
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Abstract

A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture (MIT Press, 2020) explores the storytelling, cross-platform success, and female fandom of an often scorned medium.She is currently working on a book manuscript on the reception and appropriation of the American western in Italian media, from Buffalo Bill's Wild West (1890) to Django (1966).With Ellen Nerenberg and Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola is a founding editor of gender/sexuality/italy.She is also co-editor of Italian Culture, the official publication of the American Association for Italian Studies, with Guido Capaccioli and Valerie McGuire.With Valerie McGuire, she is co-Principal Investigator of the oral history project "Italians in Texas."

Publication details

Journal / source
Cinema & cie/Cinéma & Cie
Volume
25
Issue
45
Pages
180–185
Publication date
27 February 2026
Language
EN