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I will teach the following course during the spring semester:
Fashion in Audiovisuals (L-ART/06, Pt. 2)
Master's course, Fashion Studies programme. Classes will start on March 3rd and run on Mondays 14-18:00 in Lettere e Filosofia, Aula IV.
The course surveys the history and theory of the relationship between western fashion and contemporary audiovisual culture. Through screenings, guest lectures and class readings, students explore the connections between Hollywood film, television, the European fashion industry, and a global culture of entertainment.
List of References:
Propaedeutic mandatory reading: Decherney, Peter. Hollywood. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford UP 2016.
Pt. 1 (I semester)
Berry, Sarah. Fashion and Femininity in 1930s Hollywood. University of Minnesota Press 2000 + class materials
Pt. 2 (II Semester)
Warner, Helen. Fashion on Television. Bloomsbury, 2014 + class materials
Check the course syllabus on Google Classroom, please. Code: 5r7dkfn.
Receiving hours:
On Tuesdays 9-11:00, online: https://meet.google.com/yxw-aqgg-gqb.
SUMMER SESSION:
03/06/2025: Buonaiuti Room, h.9:00
25/06/2025
04/07/2025: Buonaiuti Room, h.9:00
Final Thesis
Students who intend to graduate with the teacher, are kindly asked to contact them well in advance. The request must be made by email, with subject: Name Surname - in corso/fuori corso - month and year of the identified session. Once the availability of the session has been verified, the topic will be agreed.
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.