Cinema and organized crime: images and imagery in the stories and dramas of our time
with Emiliano Morreale and Marcello Ravveduto
Presents Mariano Ragusa
Presents Mariano Ragusa
Born in 1973, Morreale is a professor at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He writes in L’Espresso, la Repubblica and Cahiers du cinéma. He has been a selector of the Turin and Venice festivals, as well as curator of the National Film Archive. He has written or edited about twenty volumes including “Mario Soldati” (Le Mani 2006), “L’invenzione della nostalgia. Il vintage nel cinema italiano e altrove “(Donzelli 2009), “Così piangevano. Il mélo italiano degli anni ’50″(Donzelli 2011), “Cinema italiano anni sessanta”(Donzelli 2011), ” Racconti di cinema “(with M. Pierini, Einaudi 2015). His latest work that will be issued for the ‘tipi di Donzelli’ in 2020 is “La mafia immaginaria. Settant’anni di Cosa Nostra al cinema (1949-2019) “.
From March 2013 he teaches Digital Public History at the University of Salerno and Modena and Reggio Emilia. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Italian Association of Public History, of the Scientific Committee of the second level Master for “Expert in historical communication” of the Roma Tre University and of the Scientific Committee of the “Digital Library on the Camorra” at the Federico II University of Napoli.
He created the “Virtual Gallery on Mafia and Anti-Mafia” in the “Joe Petrosino” House / Museum of which he is scientific director. He writes “Libero Grassi. Storia di un’eresia borghese “(Feltrinelli, 2012) which inspires the docufiction Io sono Libero and Il sindaco gentile. Gli appalti, la camorra e un uomo onesto. “The story of Marcello Torre” (Melampo, 2016) from which the docufiction Seduto su una polveriera storia di Marcello Torre is taken. He also writes: “Napoli… Serenata calibro 9. Storia e immagini della camorra tra cinema sceneggiata e neomelodici” (Liguori, 2007); “La nazione del miracolo. L’Italia e gli italiani tra storia, memoria e immaginario” (Castelvecchi, 2018); “Lo spettacolo della mafia. Storia di un immaginario tra realtà e finzione” (Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2019).