2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-0542
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: saverio@umd.edu

            Saverio Giovacchini's first book, Hollywood Modernism (Philadelphia: Temple University, 2001) centered on the intellectual history of the Hollywood community in the Thirties and Forties. His current project, The Rise of Atlantis: Cultural Co-Production and the Creation of Western Cinema, 1945-1975, is a contribution to the debate about the cultural relations between USA and Western Europe after the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on the development of the North Atlantic film industry, film culture, and film genres, and its role in post WWII world history. An initial exploration of some of the themes of this book (the transnational genesis of the mythology of “Italiani brava gente”, “Italians nice folk,” and its role in in world cinema) is articulated in his new essay “Soccer with the Dead: Mediterraneo, the Legacy of Neorealismo, and the Myth of Italiani Brava Gente.” In Michael Paris,ed., Repicturing World War Two (London: Palgrave, 2007).
            Saverio Giovacchini organized the panel on "Screening Blackness on the International Stage" for the 2006 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians and took part in the roundtable on "Cinema and the Nation" at the 2006 meeting of the American Historical Association. He has been awarded a number of grants and was one of the 2002-2003 Fellows at Harvard University's Warren Center for Studies in American History. Dr. Giovacchini is the author of several scholarly articles in English and Italian. He has recently contributed the essay "Reconsidering the Hollywood Exiles" to the forthcoming book edited by Peter I. Rose, The Anatomy of Exile (and "‘Hollywood Is a State of Mind': New York Film Culture and the Lure of Los Angeles from 1930 to the Present" in New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture, edited by David Halle (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003). His essays on John Huston and Fritz Lang have appeared in Gian Piero Brunetta, ed., Storia del Cinema Mondiale (Turin, Italy: Einaudi, 1999-2005).

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