Gianluca Fantoni

My training is in twentieth-century Italian history, cultural studies, and film studies. I research the public and political use of history and the integration of cinematic texts into historical research. I am the author of "Italy Through the Red Lens: Italian Politics and Society in Communist Propaganda Films (1946-79)" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and "Storia della Brigata ebraica (A History of the Jewish Brigade)" (Turin, Einaudi, 2022). This work explores both the wartime history and the postwar political use of the history of the Jewish Brigade, a British military unit composed of Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine. An English version of the book is due in the fall of 2024, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. I serve as General Editor of "Modern Italy" (Cambridge University Press). Currently, I am collaborating with the Matteotti Foundation to study documents brought by Gaetano Salvemini to the LSE concerning the Matteotti murder.

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