La lingua al botteghino by Marta Idini

“…The tradition of filmed language in comic movies has always looked for and found its colouring in the less strictly controlled areas of language. …”
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Pan, God of Wilderness, in Boeotian Landscapes: Fear, Laughter and Coming of Age by Victoria Sabetai

“…Pan is markedly popular in Kabiric art which favoured grotesque figures in comic scenes. His appearance may be looked at through the prism of alterity and ritual laughter that must have been associated with liminality and transitions at this cult place.…”
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Retrodatazioni da fumetti by Mario Piotti

“…This paper presents a series of backdatings and datings that expressively characterize the language of serial comics. These are mainly verbal phrases + noun compounds.…”
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I giornali e i fumetti per il VoDIM - Vocabolario Dinamico dell'Italiano moderno by Mario Piotti

“…The article is divided in two parts: the first is dedicated to newspapers, through a lexical analysis of the texts and then a comparison with data obtained in free access archives of national newspapers, La Stampa and La Repubblica; the second part revolves on comics, whose lexical analysis data are reported, and it’s also given space to the exemplification of their relevance in lexicographical terms.…”
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Corpi e pelle in copertina: bikini, tute spaziali e nuovi modelli di femminile tra cinema e illustrazione by Paola Valentini

“…Its “space alter ego”, instead, not only enhances the centimeters of exposed skin, but also offers a new body and a new model of femininity. Through looking at comics, magazines and movies, the essay shows that the space suit – often a bikini – is a limit to the carnality of the body as well as a tool for a new identity: a woman aimed to reach a new role.…”
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L’unicità della drammaturgia Off-Off Broadway nell’Avanguardia americana by Monica Cristini

“…The article presents this new dramaturgy, influenced equally by the American Pop Art, Jazz, Beat poetry, Comics and mass culture, the European dramaturgy of the Absurd and Artaud’s theories. …”
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Un (nuovo) «Esopo» cinquecentesco: la «Vita di Esopo» del conte Giulio Landi by Guglielmo Barucci

“…The </span><span>Life </span><span>proposes three different levels of reading: comical, political, religious-philosophical. All of them have to be read in the frame both of the Piacenza milieu (mainly with the ambiguous Accademia degli Ortolan) and of the whole Landi’s production and cultural network. …”
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