RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS WRITING silvana tuccio
Published internationally in journals, magazines and books, including: Jacabook (Milan), Intellect (London), Metro (Melbourne), Monash University EPress (Melbourne), Le Mani Editore (Genoa), the Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies.
Scholarly writing is listed on Academia.edu and the University of Melbourne Institutional Repository Minerva Access, and in international scientific journals.
film
Researched and wrote the PhD Dissertation Who is behind the camera, University of Melbourne, 2009, which is available on the University of Melbourne Institutional Repository Minerva Access. The dissertation is mentioned by Professor Sneja Gunew in a talk (2:10min-2:40min) given during the Ailae Summer School, University of Venice, 2010. It is also cited in the volume edited by Rosi Braidotti et.al After Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2012). (Sneja Gunew. "Estrangement as Pedagogy: The Cosmopolitan Vernacular", in After Cosmopolitanism. Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin and Bolette Blaagard. London: Routledge (GlassHouse Book), 2013, 132-148.)Researched and wrote thesis on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini as part of Honours in Literary Criticism at Deakin University, 1995, supervised by Professor Tony Wilson.
Editor of the collection of essays on Australian film for Le Mani Editore, an Italian publisher specialised in film: Sguardi australiani. Idee, immaginari e cinema dagli antipodi (Genova: Le Mani, 2005), which is in the National Library of Australia Collection. The volume features contributions from Australian film scholars in translation, and highlights the breadth of Australian cinema. Preface by Italian film critic Stefano della Casa.
Published an essay in the Catalogue of the film culture event: Sguardi australiani. Visioni Urbane: cortometraggi e registi che raccontano la metropoli e la lontananza (Genova: 2002, Le Mani Editore).
Contributed book chapter to the volume edited by Franca Tamisari and Francesca di Blasi: in which the films of Tracey Moffat, Ivan Sen, Darlene Johnson and Richard Frankland are discussed: La Sfida dell'arte Indigena australiana, (Jaca Book, Milan:2008) edited by Franca Tamisari and Francesca di Blasi from the University of Venice Ca Foscari; .
Contributed to the workshop Australians in Italy, Monash Universtity Prato Centre, organised by Professor Bill Kent. Subsequent chapter contribution to the volune: (2008) “Australian cinema in Italy: Sguardi australiani”. In Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions, edited by Kent, Bill; Pesman, Ros; Troup, Cynthia, Melbourne: Monash University ePress, pp 22.1–22.9;
Delivered paper at the Conference in 2007 subsequently published in the journal Altreitalia: (2009) “Giorgio Mangiamele’s The Spag” in Altreitalie, Vol. 38-39 January-December 2009, pp 290-300;
Delivered paper at the Symposium on Australian film, part of the London Australian Film Festival at the Barbican Centre in 2008, on Tony Ayre''s Home Song Stories. Subsequently published as: (2008) “Whose story is reclaimed in The Home Song Stories?’ Henderson, Ian (ed) Studies in Australasian Cinema, Vol.2, No.1, London: Intellect Books.
Delivered paper at the Offshore Processes Symposium, organised by Monash University (2015) “Breaking the Silence: Language permeating through landscape in three Australian films,” January 2016;
Delivered talk on the cinema of Giorgio Mangiamele at the Offshore Processes Symposium, organised by Monash Universiy in 2015.
Curated the section on Australia for the 2015 edition of the Milan film festival Sguardi altrove, . I selected three Australian films from the Sguardi australiani Archive and together with Australian filmmaker and producer Franco di Chiera, actress Carmelina di Guglielmo and the director of the festival, Patricia Rapazzo, I sat on a roundtable. For the occasion I wrote a presentation of the three films that were screened and my contribution to the conversation (in Italian).
the city
In 2009, I began to look at the city beyond the lens of the camera. Lifegate Magazine. Contributed 11 articles between 2009 and 2012.
In 2011, I took part in the Spaces & Flows Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. Subsequently, I wrote the article (2016)\(2014) “Cities into Sustainability: The Space of Sustainable Living in the City,” Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2014, pp.63-69. I was also Associate Editor for the Journal.
Between 2012 and 2014, I collaborated on the Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium as a committee member and curator. During that time I reflected on the relevance of water narratives for resilience. I produced a workshop focusing on water in Ortigia, which culminated in a day of events as part of the UN World Water Day. I wrote about the process in (2015) “Acqua, Luce, Ortigia: The Culture of Water Environments – an Overview” in Water Views: Caring and Daring, Igneous pp 403
(2009) Contributor, 1001 Children’s Books you should read before you grow up by Julia Eccleshare and Quentin Blake. (Contributed 28 reviews of children’s books from the Italian literary tradition);
Critical review of performance by Maria Donata D'Urso published on YQasar.
In 2017, I was artist in residence at Chantilly Studio Inc., Melbourne, where I began `writing about the Sicily experience.
Publications list
books
PhD Dissertation Who is behind the camera, Silvana Tuccio (2009) University of Melbourne: University of Melbourne Institutional Repository Minerva Access.
(editor) Sguardi australiani; idee, immaginari e cinema degli antipodi, Silvana Tuccio (ed), Le Mani, Genova, 2005. (Featuring articles by Jan Chapman, Barbara Creed, Franco di Chiera, Gerardo Papalia and others).
(author) Spiazzamenti, (ilmiolibro: 2015)
book chapters
(2015) “Acqua, Luce, Ortigia: The Culture of Water Environments – an Overview”, Silvana Tuccio, in Water Views: Caring and Daring, Igneous pp 403
(2008) “Australian cinema in Italy: Sguardi australiani”, Silvana Tuccio, In Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions, edited by Kent, Bill; Pesman, Ros; Troup, Cynthia, Melbourne: Monash University ePress, pp 22.1–22.9;
(2007) “Cinema”. I cortometraggi di Tracey Moffatt, Ivan Sen, Darlene Johnson e Richard Frankland”, Silvana Tuccio in Tamisari, Franca and di Blasi, Francesca (eds), La sfida dell'arte. Tradizione, contemporaneità e innovazione nell'arte indigena australiana. Milan: Jacabook;
(2005) “Giorgio Mangiamele, l’autore in/visibile”, Silvana Tuccio in Sguardi australiani; idee, immaginari e cinema degli antipodi, Genova: Le Mani, pp 99-108;
(2005) “Il cinema di mio padre, interview with Claudia Mangiamele” Silvana Tuccio in Sguardi australiani; idee, immaginari e cinema degli antipodi, Genova: Le Mani, pp 174-186.
articles
Refereed
(2016) “Breaking the Silence: Language permeating through landscape in three Australian films,” Silvana Tuccio, January 2016;
(2014) “Cities into Sustainability: The Space of Sustainable Living in the City,” Silvana Tuccio,, Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2014, pp.63-69.;
(2009) “Giorgio Mangiamele’s The Spag” in Altreitalie, Silvana Tuccio, Vol. 38-39 January-December 2009, pp 290-300;
(2008) “Whose story is reclaimed in The Home Song Stories?’ Silvana Tuccio, in Henderson, Ian (ed) Studies in Australasian Cinema, Vol.2, No.1, London: Intellect Books.
Non refereed
(2016) Invisible Conversations on the city,” Silvana Tuccio;
(2016) “Exodus: streaming on live television,” Silvana Tuccio;
(2016) “Lolita: la veritá di Dolores,” Silvana Tuccio;
(2013) “The Ways of Water in Ortigia,” Silvana Tuccio, Waterwheel.net;
(2006) “Beyond the Stereotype: interview with Franco di Chiera” Silvana Tuccio, in Metro, Issue 151, December, Melbourne, pp 151-154.
(1996) “Resistance and Rhetoric in Jack Davis’ No Sugar” Silvana Tuccio.
Newspaper
(2005) “Italo australiano, regista e ribelle”, Silvana Tuccio in Italian national newspaper Il Manifesto (Alias), 2 July, p 8.
Festival programme
(2002) “Oltre i confini: una questione di sguardi.” Silvana Tuccio, in Sguardi australiani: cortometraggi e registi che raccontano la metropoli e la lontananza, Genova: Le Mani Editore.
Video interview
(2005) “Il cinema di mio padre” Interview with Claudia Mangiamele, Silvana Tuccio, (miniDV 10”), screened as part of the event Mangiamele/Melbourne on 13 April, 2005, Zo Centro Culture Contemporanee, Catania, Italy.
other publications
(2009) Contributor, 1001 Children’s Books you should read before you grow up by Julia Eccleshare and Quentin Blake. (Contributed 28 reviews of children’s books from the Italian literary tradition, Silvana Tuccio);
(2012) “Perugia, piedi, bici e Minimetrò,”Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate, n 63, January, Como: Lifegate;
(2011) “Johannesburg, la parità verrà ,” Silvana Tuccio,Lifegate Magazine, n 61, November, Como: Lifegate;
(2011) “Vancouver, l’amica del clima,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 59 September, Como: Lifegate;
(2011) “Liverpool, comunità sostenibile,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 57 July, Como: Lifegate;
(2011) “Kochi, l’India sostenibile,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 55 April, Como: Lifegate;
(2011) “Seoul, le acque che scorrono liberi,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 53 February, Como: Lifegate;
(2010) “Barcellona, città dell’energia solare,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 51 September/October, Como: Lifegate
(2010) “Dar es salaam, coltivare in città ,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 50 June/July, Como: Lifegate;
(2010) “Bogotà e la mobilità sostenibile”, Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 49 April/May, Como: Lifegate;
(2010) “Copenhagen,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate Magazine, n 48 February/March, Como: Lifegate;
(2009) “Melbourne, Città in via di trasformazione,” Silvana Tuccio, Lifegate.