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Fragments of the city, 2001, n. 4, pp. 57-100
The author, an Italian cultural theorist who lives in New York, writes about her experience of the city after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001 changed the landscape of downtown Manhattan.
Choosing a subjective, microhistorical perspective in the face of this over-spectacularized event, she chronicles the life of the city in a diaristic, open letter that observes the tangible effects of the attack on daily life. What emerges from this haptic point of view is not only a police state but a state of mind. As we watch a new social geography take place, we are also led to see how the exterior scar extends into the very fabric of the city's interior landscape.
The author takes us on this imaginary walk through her wounded city, recording sounds and smells, feeling the depth of silence and the need for touch. In observing material signs of distress at every street corner, she maps a ruined streetscape while mourning the missing body of a vibrant cityscape. This affective mapping of a metropolitan trauma ultimately charts an emotional topography, one in which writing itself becomes a form of memorial.
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Fashions of Living, 2005, n. 2-3, pp. 41-57
The Italian translation of an essay on intersections of film theory, modern architecture and fashion through the experience of an urban voyageuse. A window on the architecture of living, of its maps and links with Body, House, Gender, Emotion, Travel, Movie, Texture. A fruitful journey – a dwelling voyage – around the space between the Wall and the Screen.
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The Legend of Maya Deren. A Documentary
Biography and Collected Works, New York, Anthology Film Archives, 1985
rev. by Giuliana Bruno, 1986, n. 3, pp. 127-128
Books reviewed by DWF
BRUNO Giuliana, Street-walking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the
City Films of Elvira Notari, Princeton, N.J., Princeton U.P., 1993
rev. by Lidia Curti, 1993, n. 17, pp. 69-73
BRUNO Giuliana - NADOTTI M. (edited by), Immagini allo schermo. La spettatrice
e il cinema, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 1991
rev. by Paola Masi, 1992, n. 16, pp. 48