BIOGRAPHY

Pierluigi is an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow working on the project entitled Projecting the Nation: Italian Cinema, Propaganda and Little Fascist Italies in Britain and Ireland. Pierluigi has taught at the University of East Anglia and at the University of Sussex, and he has published a number of essays on US and Italian documentary filmmakers. His research on Italian diaspora, film culture and the circulation of Italian films during the silent period has been written up for a number of publications including M. Boria and L. Risso, Laboratorio di nuova ricerca: Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies (2007), R. Maltby et al, Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: European Perspectives on Film Cultures and Cinema Going (2011) and G. Bertellini, Silent Italian Cinema: A Reader (forthcoming). Research areas include: early cinema, audiences and reception studies, race and ethnicity, Italian cinema, documentary, cinephilia and digital media.

Books

  Year Publication
(2000) Diviso in due: Cesare Zavattini, cinema e cultura popolare. (Divided in Two: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema and Popular Culture).
Ercole, Pierluigi (2000) Diviso in due: Cesare Zavattini, cinema e cultura popolare. (Divided in Two: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema and Popular Culture). Italy: Diabasis. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2000) 'Il miracolo della leggera. Fantastico e popolare in Miracolo a Milano'
Ercole, Pierluigi (ed) (2000) 'Il miracolo della leggera. Fantastico e popolare in Miracolo a Milano' In: Diviso in due: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema e cultura popolare. Italy: Diabasis. [Details]
(2000) 'High School: You Can!'
Brianzoli, Giorgia; Chatrian, Carlo; Mosso, Luca (eds) (2000) 'High School: You Can!' In: Paesaggi Umani. Il cinema di Frederick Wiseman. Italy: Filmmaker. [Details]
(2007) '‘Migrant People Moving Images: Italian Immigration, London’s Little Italy and the Role of Cinema in the Early Twentieth Century’'
Boria, Monica; Risso, Linda (eds) (2007) '‘Migrant People Moving Images: Italian Immigration, London’s Little Italy and the Role of Cinema in the Early Twentieth Century’' In: Laboratorio di nuova ricerca. Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies. Leicester: Trobadour. [Details]
(2011) '‘Little Italy On the Brink’: The Italian Diaspora and the Distribution of War Films in London 1914-1918'
Maltby, Richard; Biltereyst, Daniel; Meers, Philippe. (eds) (2011) '‘Little Italy On the Brink’: The Italian Diaspora and the Distribution of War Films in London 1914-1918' In: Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History. London/New York: Routledge. [Details]
(2013) '‘“Pictures from Italy”: Italian Silent Films in Britain, 1907-1915’'
Bertellini, Giorgio (ed) (2013) '‘“Pictures from Italy”: Italian Silent Films in Britain, 1907-1915’' In: Silent Italian Cinema: A Reader. London: John Libbey Publishing. [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2002) 'Generi, spettatorialità e dinamiche di ricezione. Un caso di microstoria milanese: il Bottegone'
Farinotti, Luisella; Eugeni, Ruggero, (eds) (2002) 'Generi, spettatorialità e dinamiche di ricezione. Un caso di microstoria milanese: il Bottegone' Comunicazioni Sociali, . [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2002) L’orizzonte di Bruma: Luoghi del novecento poetico in Emilia
Sitta, Carlo (ed) (2002) Identità culturale e cinema in Zavattini, (da Italia mia a Un paese) L’orizzonte di Bruma: Luoghi del novecento poetico in Emilia [Details]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
(1998) Diviso in due: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema e cultura popolare,
Ercole, Pierluigi (1998) Il miracolo della leggera. Fantastico e popolare in Miracolo a Milano. [Oral Presentation], Diviso in due: Cesare Zavattini, Cinema e cultura popolare, Luzzara, Italy , 12-DEC-98 - 12-DEC-98
(2000) L’orizzonte di bruma. Luoghi del novecento poetico in Emilia,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2000) Da Italia mia a Un paese: identità culturale e cinema in Zavattini. [Oral Presentation], L’orizzonte di bruma. Luoghi del novecento poetico in Emilia, Modena, Italy , 11-NOV-00 - 11-NOV-00
(2005) Society for Italian Studies Post-graduate Colloquium,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2005) Migrant People Moving Images. Little Italy and the Immigrant Cinema-Going Experience in Early 1900s London. [Oral Presentation], Society for Italian Studies Post-graduate Colloquium, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (UK) , 16-APR-05 - 17-APR-05
(2005) 8th British Silent Cinema Festival,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2005) The Distribution of Italian Films in Britain 1907-1915. [Oral Presentation], 8th British Silent Cinema Festival, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham (UK) , 09-APR-05 - 09-APR-05
(2006) 9th British Silent Cinema Festival,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2006) ‘“One lives now, but one sees then”: Imagining Italy’s Past and the Critical Reception of Italian Historical Films in Britain (1908-1915)’. [Oral Presentation], 9th British Silent Cinema Festival, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham (UK) , 06-APR-06 - 06-APR-06
(2007) “The Glow in Their Eyes.” Global Perspectives on Film Cultures, Film Exhibition and Cinemagoing,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2007) Senza Patria or Without a Homeland: Italian War Films and Immigrants in London (1914-1918). [Oral Presentation], “The Glow in Their Eyes.” Global Perspectives on Film Cultures, Film Exhibition and Cinemagoing, Ghent (Belgium) , 14-DEC-07 - 16-DEC-07
(2008) London Screen History Symposium,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2008) Little Italy on the Brink: London Italians and War Films, 1915-1918. [Oral Presentation], London Screen History Symposium, Birkbeck College London (UK) , 14-MAR-08 - 14-MAR-08
(2010) American Association for Italian Studies,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2010) Little Italy on the Brink: London Italians and War Films, 1915-1918. [Oral Presentation], American Association for Italian Studies, University of Michigan (USA) , 21-APR-10 - 25-APR-10
(2010) Research Seminar,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2010) Ethnic Audiences and Film Culture: A case Study of Italian Immigrants and Films in London at the Beginning of the 20th Century. [Invited Oral Presentation], Research Seminar, University of Sussex (UK) , 12-MAY-10 - 12-MAY-10
(2011) CATH Research Centre, Associate Research Fellow’s Day,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2011) London’s Little Italy and Film Culture in the 1910s. [Invited Oral Presentation], CATH Research Centre, Associate Research Fellow’s Day, De Montfort University (UK) , 16-FEB-11 - 16-FEB-11
(2012) Cinema in the Interstices. Alphaville Inaugural Conference,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2012) Reel Fiction? An Analysis of the Italian Propaganda Film Camicia Nera (Black Shirt, 1933). [Oral Presentation], Cinema in the Interstices. Alphaville Inaugural Conference, University College Cork (Ireland) , 07-SEP-12 - 09-SEP-12
(2012) NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2012) Big Screen, Grand Nation: Italian Diaspora and Fascist Propaganda Films. [Oral Presentation], NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New University of Lisbon, (Portugal) , 21-JUN-12 - 23-JUN-12
(2012) New Media Changing Audiences,
Ercole, Pierluigi (2012) New Media, Changing Audiences and Contemporary Cinephilia: Reflections on an Ongoing Debate. [Oral Presentation], New Media Changing Audiences, University College Cork (Ireland) , 10-MAR-12 - 10-MAR-12

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2005 Research Scholarship Il Circolo. Italian Cultural Association (UK)
2004 Doctoral Award Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
2011 Postdoctoral Fellow Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Science (IRCHSS)

Education

  Year Instituion Qualification Subject
2002 Catholic University (Milan, Italy) BA Philosophy
2004 University of East Anglia (UK) MA Film Studies
2009 University of East Anglia (UK) PhD Film Studies

Languages

  Language Reading Writing Speaking
Italian Fluent Fluent Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent