
Karen Pinkus
Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
Chair of French and Italian
Contact at: (213) 740-0104 or pinkus@usc.edu
Expertise:
- history of Italian cinema
- contemporary Italian cinema
- origins of paparazzi culture in 1950s Italy
- scandals and paparazzi
- Mussolini and fascism in Italy
- Author of Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (1995); Picturing Silence: Emblem, Language, Counter-Reformation Materiality (1996) and Everyday Death: The Birth of the Paparazzi and the Montesi Scandal of 1950s Italy (2000)
Foreign Languages:
Italian, French
More:
Biographical information can be found at:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/biographies/fc_bio_pinkus.html
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