• Let’s Play Melodrama 

      McNeeley, Gale (2022)
      Melodrama is a show of emotions. It is a question of heart, in a mixture of feelings for the audience. In my 40 years of work as an actor, I am fascinated by this form of art: it is a sort of game between performers ...
    • The aesthetics of pity. Italian media representation of migrants and emotional audience 

      Cava, Antonia; Parito, Mariaeugenia; Pira, Francesco (Fisciano: ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge, 2018)
      Public debates on migration oscillate between two conflicting claims: on the one hand, compassion and protection, on the other hand, rejection and fear. Both representations are more focused on emotional reactions (Castells, ...