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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
Additional Information:
    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