'Giampaolo Fabris' Department of Communication, Arts and Media

IULM research group on Periodicals Studies

IuPS, the IULM Research Group on Periodical Studies, aims to analyze Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines, of the past and of the present, from a transmedia perspective. It is composed by researchers from the department of Communication, Arts and Media "Giampaolo Fabris" and the department of Humanities. Over the years, periodical scholars from other institutions, both Italian and foreign ones, have joined it.

IuPS actively collaborates with ESPRit (European Society for Periodical Research).

CURRENT MEMBERS
Dott. Dario Boemia
Prof. Andrea Chiurato (Member of the ESPRit Committee)
Prof. Paolo Giovannetti
Dott.ssa Elena Gipponi
Dott. Stefano Locati
Prof. Mara Logaldo (Chair of ESPRit)
Dott. Filippo Pennacchio

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

2016-2018	In 2016-2018, a first project was developed, which led to the organization of the Sixth annual international conference of ESPRit Conflict in the Periodical Press (held at IULM University, Milan, on 28-30 June 2017), the publication of a special issue of JEPS (Journal of European Periodical Studies) edited by Paolo Giovannetti, Andrea Chiurato, and Mara Logaldo, and the volume Periodici del novecento e del duemila tra le avanguardie e il postmoderno, edited by Giovannetti and published in 2018.
2018-2022	In the years 2018-2020 a second project was developed, focusing on the review form. The outcomes of this project were a one-day workshop on reviewing practices (Milan, May 2019), the first international conference dedicated to the genre of the review, held online on June 3-5, 2020, and the volume on the practice of reviewing in modern and contemporary publishing Leggere per scegliere, edited by Andrea Chiurato (2020).
2022-onwards	Since 2022, a third project has seen the continuation of the research on periodicals, focusing on the birth and establishment of the illustrated magazine format, which became popular in Italy in the late 1930s, during the fascist regime. The analysis has centred on the magazine Tempo in relation to other weeklies and periodical publications experimenting with similar techniques during the same period. A first workshop is planned for November 22, 2022, and an international conference will be organized in 2023.

CONFERENCES

2017 - "Conflict in the Periodical Press. Sixth Annual Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research", June 28-30, 2017.

2020 - "Book Reviews and Beyond. The Transformations of Literature and Art Criticism in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century", June 3-5, 2020 (online).

2021 – “Dal critico all'influencer: Metamorfosi della recensione”, 24 September 2021 (online).

2022 – “Testo e immagine nel rotocalco d’attualità. La prima serie di Tempo e gli altri periodici popolari fra anni Trenta e Quaranta”, 22 November 2022 (IULM).

PUBLICATIONS

Boemia, Dario, “La recensione letteraria a fumetti tra gli anni Sessanta e gli anni Settanta in Italia”, in Boccali, R. (a cura di), Intrecci mediali. Articolazioni dell'iconico nella cultura visuale contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2019, pp. 167-184.

Boemia, Dario, I denti dell’arte. La letteratura entre-deux-guerres nell’“Italiano” di Leo Longanesi, Amos, Venezia-Mestre 2020.

Boemia, Dario, “Alle ‘soglie’ dei Sillabari di Goffredo Parise. Dalla terza pagina alle edizioni in volume”, in Griseldaonline, vol. 19, n. 1, 2020, pp. 90-106.

Boemia, D., Locati, S. (a cura di), Book Reviews and Beyond. Critical Authority, Cultural Industry, and Society in Periodicals Between the 18th and the 21st Century, Biblion, Milano 2021.

Boemia, Dario, “L’intelligenza malinconica. Il dibattito intorno al Neorealismo sulla rivista ‘La Chimera’” (1954-1955), Giovannetti, Paolo (a cura di), Le forme del simbolo. Discorsi e pratiche del contemporaneo, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2021, pp. 133-147.

Boemia, Dario, “Al funerale dello Zio Sam. Le cronache americane nell’‘Italiano’ di Leo Longanesi, in Carli A., Cavalli S., Savio D. (a cura di), Letteratura e antropologia. Generi, forme e immaginari. Atti del XXI Convegno Internazionale della MOD 13-15 giugno 2019, ETS, Pisa 2021, pp. 489-197.

Boemia, Dario, “Guido Crepax and the Book Reviews in Comics Form: The case of ‘La Fiera Letteraria’ (1967) and ‘Linus’ (1994-95)”, in Simultanea, vol. 3, n. 1, 2022.

Chiurato, Andrea (a cura di), The Last Avant-garde. Alternative and anti-establishment reviews (1970-1979), Mimesis, Milano 2018.

Chiurato, Andrea (a cura di), Leggere per scegliere. La pratica della recensione nell’editoria moderna e contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020.

Giovannetti, Paolo (a cura di), Periodici del Novecento e del Duemila fra avanguardie e postmoderno, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2018.

Giovannetti, Paolo, “Conflict in the Periodical Press”, in Journal of European Periodical Studies, vol. 3, n. 1, p. 1-6.

Gipponi, Elena, Una rivoluzione inavvertita. Dal bianco e nero al colore nello scenario mediale della modernità italiana, Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2020.

Logaldo, Mara, Cronaca come romanzo: Truman Capote e il New Journalism, Arcipelago, Milano 2003.

Logaldo, Mara, “’The Last Laugh?’ A Multimodal Analysis of Captions in Photojournalism”, in Pólemos, vol. 11, 1, 2017, pp. 247-266.

Logaldo, M., Giovannetti, P., Chiurato, A. (a cura di), Special Issue on Conflict, Journal of Periodical Studies (JEPS), vol. 3, n. 1, 2018.

Logaldo, M., Antelmi, D. (a cura di), Testi brevi di accompagnamento. Linguistica, semiotica, traduzione, Universitas Studiorum, Mantova 2020.

Logaldo, M., Garzone, G., Santulli, F. (a cura di), Investigating Conflict Discourses in the Periodical Press, Bern-Berlin-New York: Peter Lang 2020.

Pennacchio, Filippo, “Ai margini del margine. ‘Frankenstein, trimestrale di tecnologia, Poesia e mercato’”, in Cavalli S., Savio D., Van den Bergh C. (a cura di), Fabrica in fabula. Industria e editoria nel Novecento, introduzione di Giuseppe Lupo, Franco Cesati, Firenze 2022, pp. 187-197.

Pennacchio, Filippo, “Gli anni ottanta di ‘Linea d’ombra’”, in Storiografia, 24, 2020, pp. 213-219.

Pennacchio, Filippo, “Un laboratorio dell’alterità. “Linea d’ombra” fra postcolonialismo, letteratura mondiale e globalizzazione”, in Letteratura e letterature, 14, 2020, pp. 13-27.