Receiving hours
On Tuesdays 9-11:00 online
Curriculum
Silvia Vacirca is a fashion historian with an interest in film, fashion and the arts. She teaches “History of Fashion” at RUFA Rome Academy of Fine Arts and “Fashion in Audiovisuals” at Sapienza, University of Rome.
She published her first monograph, "Fashioning Submission. Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy Trough 'Bellezza' Magazine" (Mimesis International) in 2023. She has published articles in journals including "Fashion, Film & Consumption", "Studies in Costume & Performance", "ZoneModa Journal", "Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies", "Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti", and is a regular contributor for "Harper’s Bazaar Italia".
Publications
BOOKS:
"L'adattamento cinematografico non esiste" (upcoming, 2025)
"Fashioning Submission. Documenting Fashion, Taste and Identity in WWII Italy Through 'Bellezza' Magazine", Mimesis International, Milan 2023
EDITED SELECTION OF ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
(2024) Mourning the Italian Boys: ‘GenZ’, Masculinity, Teen Stardom, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 12, 3: 397-412.
(2023) Barbara Stanwick's Grey Hair, ZoneModa Journal, 13, 2: 91-106.
(2023) “Impossible to reproduce”: alla scoperta di Luciana Aloisi De Reutern." In L’Italia al lavoro: un lifestyle da esportazione, edited by Paola Cordera and Chiara Faggella, 177-184. Bologna: Bononia UP.
(2022) "Indumenti e accessori," Quaderni del CSCI. Rivista annuale del cinema italiano, 18 (2022): 197-199.
(2022) "Live Fast, Die Young. Did Rebel Without a Cause Invent ‘Streetwear’?" In Culture, Fashion and Society’s Notebook, edited by Fabriano Fabbri, 143-67. Milan: Pearson Bruno Mondadori, 2022.
(2022) "‘Ho studiato tutta l’estate il mio io’. Bringing fashion home all’epoca del Covid-19: Alice Pagani icona di moda," Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti, no. 21 (2022): 103-121.
(2017) (with Marta Martina) "The Celebrity Factory: New Modes of Fashion Entrepreneurship," ZoneModa Journal, VII (2016): 37-53.
(2016) "Monica Vitti: A Pop Diva." In Culture, Fashion and Society’s Notebook, edited by Roy Menarini, 281-296. Milan: Pearson Bruno Mondadori, 2016.
(2016) "Dressing Checco Zalone: Popular Italian Cinema and The Rhetoric of National Character," Film, Fashion & Consumption, V, no. 1 (2016): 45-54.
(2014) (with Andrea Minuz) "Attori e attrici nella commedia all’italiana: corpo, gesto, immagine della nazione." In Risate all’italiana. Il cinema di commedia dal secondo dopoguerra a oggi, edited by Giovanni Spagnoletti e Alessandro Spera, 109-34. Rome: UniversItalia, 2014.
(2014) (with Andrea Minuz) "69 anneé érotique. La rivoluzione sessuale e il cinema italiano alla fine degli anni Sessanta," Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti, no. 5 (2014): 108-118.