Charles L. Leavitt IV
@clliv.bsky.social
William Payden Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Associate Director of the Center for Italian Studies, U. of Notre Dame.
Author of Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487507107)
Author of Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487507107)
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Giuseppe De Santis's 1949 classic “Bitter Rice” brought sex appeal and genre thrills to neorealism. Its new 4K restoration opens Friday at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social:
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January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Giuseppe De Santis's 1949 classic “Bitter Rice” brought sex appeal and genre thrills to neorealism. Its new 4K restoration opens Friday at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social:
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One of Italian cinema's fiercest voices, Elio Petri (BOTD, 1929-1982) fused political satire and genre filmmaking into something urgent and unsettling.
Our releases include THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN, A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY and WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY.
Our releases include THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN, A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY and WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY.
January 29, 2026 at 12:39 PM
One of Italian cinema's fiercest voices, Elio Petri (BOTD, 1929-1982) fused political satire and genre filmmaking into something urgent and unsettling.
Our releases include THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN, A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY and WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY.
Our releases include THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN, A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY and WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY.
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“Without Pity” (1948) is the Italian stars Carla Del Poggio as a woman who witnesses the shooting of John Kitzmiller, a U.S. serviceman. Shady people surround them as they try to escape their desperate situations. Produced by Carlo Ponti for Lux Film. #FilmNoir #neorealism #italiannoir
January 26, 2026 at 12:31 PM
“Without Pity” (1948) is the Italian stars Carla Del Poggio as a woman who witnesses the shooting of John Kitzmiller, a U.S. serviceman. Shady people surround them as they try to escape their desperate situations. Produced by Carlo Ponti for Lux Film. #FilmNoir #neorealism #italiannoir
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“Archivio Grafica Italiana is the first online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage.” [kottke.org]
An Archive of Italian Graphic Design
“Archivio Grafica Italiana is the first online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage.” (via sidebar)
kottke.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:12 PM
“Archivio Grafica Italiana is the first online archive dedicated to the entire Italian graphic design heritage.” [kottke.org]
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I'm now on Bluesky!
January 21, 2026 at 11:11 PM
I'm now on Bluesky!
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#filmsky #moviesky #neorealism
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Filmmaker, Federico Fellini #BOTD
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Filmmaker, Federico Fellini #BOTD
January 20, 2026 at 12:31 PM
#filmsky #moviesky #neorealism
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Filmmaker, Federico Fellini #BOTD
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Filmmaker, Federico Fellini #BOTD
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote that “only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.”
Students in the Italian studies course The Literature of the Journey to Italy discovered that to be true.
Read about the class's fully-funded literary odyssey through Italy: https://bit.ly/4pPDysw
Students in the Italian studies course The Literature of the Journey to Italy discovered that to be true.
Read about the class's fully-funded literary odyssey through Italy: https://bit.ly/4pPDysw
Italian studies students retrace travels of renowned writers in weeklong trip to Rome, Florence, and Naples
Eighteenth-century German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote that, “only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” A group of Un...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote that “only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.”
Students in the Italian studies course The Literature of the Journey to Italy discovered that to be true.
Read about the class's fully-funded literary odyssey through Italy: https://bit.ly/4pPDysw
Students in the Italian studies course The Literature of the Journey to Italy discovered that to be true.
Read about the class's fully-funded literary odyssey through Italy: https://bit.ly/4pPDysw
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Have a look at the Introduction of my 'Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation' (OUP 2025)!! This is now available for free until 18 February 2026: academic.oup.com/book/61479/c...
And the book is still 30% off with code AUFLY30!!
Thank you, OUP!
And the book is still 30% off with code AUFLY30!!
Thank you, OUP!
Introduction
Abstract. This chapter establishes the framework for examining the overlooked encounter between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied oc
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January 14, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Have a look at the Introduction of my 'Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation' (OUP 2025)!! This is now available for free until 18 February 2026: academic.oup.com/book/61479/c...
And the book is still 30% off with code AUFLY30!!
Thank you, OUP!
And the book is still 30% off with code AUFLY30!!
Thank you, OUP!
A moving tribute to Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves from Jafar Panahi. “It was when I saw this film that I knew what I wanted to pursue, what type of films I was after. It opened my path to social cinema.”
really struck that for all that he has been through, and all his country is going through, Jafar Panahi has become more hopeful, not less. His @criterion.bsky.social video on Bicycle Thieves muses on the closed circles of oppression, but now, he says, "the circle is breakable."
Jafar Panahi’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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January 13, 2026 at 11:17 AM
A moving tribute to Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves from Jafar Panahi. “It was when I saw this film that I knew what I wanted to pursue, what type of films I was after. It opened my path to social cinema.”
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“Miracle at St. Anna” (2008) good movie.
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Miracle at St. Anna” (2008) good movie.
"Max Mara’s 75th anniversary collection channels Italian Neorealism’s everyday elegance."
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Inside Max Mara’s 75th Anniversary Collection Inspired by Italian Film Icons
Max Mara’s 75th anniversary collection channels Italian Neorealism’s everyday elegance.
www.lofficielusa.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Max Mara’s 75th anniversary collection channels Italian Neorealism’s everyday elegance."
www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/max-...
www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/max-...
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What do you MEAN you're leaving Bicycle Thieves off your top 10 Italian Neorealism films list ?!?
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What do you MEAN you're leaving Bicycle Thieves off your top 10 Italian Neorealism films list ?!?
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It's Black Friday on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and they don't come much blacker than DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE, a cunning 1961 Italian picture that combines broad comedy, crime drama, and neorealism in a way that sometimes scans as a Coen Bros film lost in time. Only two days of Noirvember left!
Noirvember: Another Headache - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
“Well, I guess I am a rather interesting man — refined, intelligent. But that stomach, that stomach! (Baron Cefalù)” You never know what caprice will keep you away from a...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's Black Friday on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and they don't come much blacker than DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE, a cunning 1961 Italian picture that combines broad comedy, crime drama, and neorealism in a way that sometimes scans as a Coen Bros film lost in time. Only two days of Noirvember left!
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Woke up because I was hot and my back hurt and ended up watching some Rossellini (The Machine to Kill Bad People). Going back to sleep now, but I was just curious how many of y'all also prefer Italian Neorealism to French New Wave?
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Woke up because I was hot and my back hurt and ended up watching some Rossellini (The Machine to Kill Bad People). Going back to sleep now, but I was just curious how many of y'all also prefer Italian Neorealism to French New Wave?
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Hello Bluesky! We’re Shameless + CultFilms, one feed for everything from Italian cult mayhem to restored world-cinema classics 🎥
Giallo, neorealism, Eurocrime, arthouse… all under one roof.
Glad to be here, more soon.
Giallo, neorealism, Eurocrime, arthouse… all under one roof.
Glad to be here, more soon.
December 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hello Bluesky! We’re Shameless + CultFilms, one feed for everything from Italian cult mayhem to restored world-cinema classics 🎥
Giallo, neorealism, Eurocrime, arthouse… all under one roof.
Glad to be here, more soon.
Giallo, neorealism, Eurocrime, arthouse… all under one roof.
Glad to be here, more soon.
Pleased that my article on Agostino degli Espinosa and the Allied occupation of Italy has come out in the journal @modernitaly.bsky.social. Thanks to @efghilmno.bsky.social for co-editing the special issue in which it will be published.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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‘Silent loyalty’: armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core
‘Silent loyalty’: armistice and Italian memory in the work of Agostino degli Espinosa
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November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Pleased that my article on Agostino degli Espinosa and the Allied occupation of Italy has come out in the journal @modernitaly.bsky.social. Thanks to @efghilmno.bsky.social for co-editing the special issue in which it will be published.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Please sign this petition to save modern languages courses at the University of Leicester.
We Can Make an Impact.
Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester
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November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Please sign this petition to save modern languages courses at the University of Leicester.
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And JINGLE ALL THE WAY is just a remake of BICYCLE THIEVES with a super-happy Hollywood ending!
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
And JINGLE ALL THE WAY is just a remake of BICYCLE THIEVES with a super-happy Hollywood ending!
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November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Exciting new documentary entering circulation! ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE about Italy’s first woman director + journey to bring her work back to life. Trailer (w/ English subs) here. First learned of Notari via Giuliana Bruno’s classic monograph STREETWALKING ON A RUINED MAP
vimeo.com/1125241996
vimeo.com/1125241996
October 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Exciting new documentary entering circulation! ELVIRA NOTARI: BEYOND SILENCE about Italy’s first woman director + journey to bring her work back to life. Trailer (w/ English subs) here. First learned of Notari via Giuliana Bruno’s classic monograph STREETWALKING ON A RUINED MAP
vimeo.com/1125241996
vimeo.com/1125241996
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RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), an icon of Italian cinema and the embodiment of postwar European glamour.
Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.
Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.
September 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), an icon of Italian cinema and the embodiment of postwar European glamour.
Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.
Alongside her work with Fellini, Leone and Visconti she appeared in five Radiance releases, ranking amongst our most featured actors.
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Can't believe I'm writing another post like this: RIP to a cinema giant. Claudia Cardinale was maybe the most beautiful woman in film history, but more, her unforgettable feline presence graces some of the greatest movies of all time, from Visconti to Leone to Comencini. :(
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Can't believe I'm writing another post like this: RIP to a cinema giant. Claudia Cardinale was maybe the most beautiful woman in film history, but more, her unforgettable feline presence graces some of the greatest movies of all time, from Visconti to Leone to Comencini. :(
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Join Kellogg’s Visiting Fellows program at the University of Notre Dame! We seek scholars and practitioners from diverse social science disciplines working on global democracy. Apply today to advance your research in an ideal scholarly environment.
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September 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Join Kellogg’s Visiting Fellows program at the University of Notre Dame! We seek scholars and practitioners from diverse social science disciplines working on global democracy. Apply today to advance your research in an ideal scholarly environment.
🔗 Learn more & apply: kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships
🔗 Learn more & apply: kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships
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🎬 In 1946, Italian director Vittorio De Sica released Shoeshine, a poignant tale of two boys caught in postwar poverty. Its raw realism earned an honorary Oscar and helped define the neorealist movement—reshaping global cinema’s moral lens. #CinemaHistory
September 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🎬 In 1946, Italian director Vittorio De Sica released Shoeshine, a poignant tale of two boys caught in postwar poverty. Its raw realism earned an honorary Oscar and helped define the neorealist movement—reshaping global cinema’s moral lens. #CinemaHistory