Editorial

Abstract

2020 was the centennial anniversary not just of Federico Fellini, but of fellow Romagnol Tonino Guerra, whose name is often associated with Fellini but who has been significantly underappreciated in Italian film scholarship. This Special Issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies (JICMS) seeks to help redress the lack of attention given to Guerra work. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his screenwriting, especially with Michelangelo Antonioni and Fellini, and since JICMS is a film journal, the issue centres on his film work while also contextualizing it in terms of his importance as novelist, fabulist, poet and visual and installation artist. Special attention is paid to Guerra’s ecological sensibility and his fusing of local and global in a profound sense of place that is evident not only in his later artwork but in the films for which he wrote.