Launch of 'Cinema & Storia': Brunetta, Veltroni, cinepanettone
The first issue of Christian Uva’s new journal Cinema e storia, devoted to the 1980s,will be launched tomorrow in Rome, with Alberto Crespi and Walter Veltroni presenting it. The issue has articles by Giacomo Manzoli, of whom we are a big fan, and by the greats Pierre Sorlin and Gian Piero Brunetta. My own article, on the nostalgia still felt for Vacanze di Natale (1983), the first cinepanettone, and the critical dismissal of the film culture of the 1980s, takes issue with the tone of Brunetta’s writing on the decade. You can read the article here, and some of the material in English that I used for it here.
Here are the contents of the journal issue: