Publications & Talks (main)

Forthcoming:

• [Edited Collection] [in production] Carbone, M.B, Summerfield, G., Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Special Issue: Italy’s Souths and Islands in Film, Media and Visual Cultures (2000–22)

Published Monographs:

2022

• [Monograph] Carbone, M.B. (2022) Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity. The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination, London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• [Journal Article] Carbone, M.B. (2022), ‘Popularising the “folkloric”: Innsmouth and the Italian Polesine in mocku-/found horror films H. P. Lovecraft and Road to L.’, Imago. Studi di cinema e media, n. 24, Edited by G. Ravesi & R. Catanese, pp. 117-137.

2018

• [Book Chapter] Carbone, M. B. (2018) ‘Beauty and the Octopus: Close encounters with the other-than-human’, in Hackett, J. and Harrington, S. (eds.) Beasts of the Deep. Sea Creatures and Popular Cultures. East Barnet : John Libbey Publishing & Indiana University Press. pp. 59 – 76. ISBN 10: 086196733X. ISBN 13: 978-0861967339.

2017

• [Book Chapter] Carbone, MB. (2017) ‘Chronotopes of Hellenic Antiquity: the Strait of Reggio and Messina in Documents of the Grand Tour era’, in Guardiola, RR. (ed.) The Ancient Mediterranean in Modern Visual and Performing Arts. London : Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 33 – 54. ISBN 10: 1474298591. ISBN 13: 9781474298612.

Talks

2022, “Carbonara is not an opinion”: food nationalism, irony, and
authenticity. A case study on Italian restaurants in London. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies International Conference. The American University of Rome, 16-18 June.

2021 – Great Greece’s long shadow. Historicity, historiographies, and past futures in Calabria. Terzo Convegno Nazionale della SIAC. Future. Anthropology of the Future, the Future of Anthropology, Rome & online.

2021 – Beyond place marketing: fieldwork experience in tourist sites. A case study in Scilla, Italy. On Experience: Techne Student Congress, 27-29 January, Brunel University, London.

2021 – The Greeks and the ‘Rabble’: popular historiographies and ideological appropriations of Greek antiquity in Calabria, Italy. AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting, 5-10 January.

2019 – Heirs of the Greeks: Global histories, ethnicity, and auto-ethnography in South Italy. Anthropology Research Seminars, Brunel University, London.

2018 – Denizens of the Odyssey. Heritage, tourism, and visual consumption of antiquiy in Calabria. Visual Intersections III, University of Durham, 11 July.

Other publications