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Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is based in the Faculty of Arts Building. His research focuses on cinema as a social practice and industry, with particular expertise in Italian film history, cultural politics, and the star system. He has led multiple AHRC-funded research projects examining Italian cinema, political leadership, and historical representation.
Professor Gundle's research interests span film and media history, cultural and political history, and the interplay between cinema, politics, and consumption in Italy from the Fascist period to the present. He has made significant contributions to understanding the Italian and European star system, the concept of glamour, mass culture under Fascism, the Italian Communist Party's cultural policies, and representations of political figures like Mussolini and Berlusconi in film and television. His work bridges historical analysis with contemporary cultural theory.
His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on Italian cinema's relationship with politics, consumer culture, and national identity. Gundle has extensively examined the Italian film industry's development, the role of producers, and the representation of political figures across different historical periods. His scholarship demonstrates particular strength in analyzing how cinema both reflects and shapes cultural values, political ideologies, and social transformations in Italy.
Professor Gundle has supervised numerous PhD projects on Italian cinema topics including the Italian magazine industry and cinematic imaginary, Italian silent cinema, Visconti's politics and aesthetics, Italian film stardom, and ruralism and modernity in Italian cinema. He has served as principal investigator on three major AHRC research projects, most recently exploring the role of women workers in the Italian film industry between the 1940s and 1980s in partnership with the Cineteca di Bologna.
