S. (Sergio) Rigoletto, PhD
Research interests
Sergio Rigoletto is Assistant Professor of Film Studies. Prior to his current appointment at the University of Groningen, he was Associate Professor in Cinema Studies and Italian at the University of Oregon, USA.
His research focuses on the politics of film aesthetics and its relation to social change, queer media cultures, international television, stars and performance studies and several aspects of Italian cinema.
Writing in both English and Italian, he is the author of two books:
- Masculinity and Italian Cinema: Sexual Politics, Social Conflict and Male Crisis in the 1970s (Edinburgh University Press: 2014)
- Le norme traviate (Meltemi: 2020).
In 2013, he co-edited an anthology titled Popular Italian Cinema (Palgrave).
Sergio Rigoletto’s most recent publications include an essay on questions around difference and spectrality in Call Me by Your Name (in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) and another essay on Xavier Dolan's idiosyncratic use of musical parentheses (in the New Review of Film and Television Studies).
He is currently writing a book on film star Anna Magnani and a second monograph provisionally titled Queer from the South: Film, Video and Media Activism.