Maria Elena Alampi is currently a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Exeter, working on Italian girlhood and media for the AHRC project «A Girls’ Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian Screen since the 1950s». She obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2021. Her research interests focus on Italian cinema, particularly labour, precarity, and gender representations. She has recently published several articles and co-edited special issues on the themes of precarity and gender. In 2020, she co-founded the international academic network known as The Cinematic Precarity Research Network. Additionally, in 2021, she worked as a Research Assistant for B-Film-International Research Centre of Film Scholars at the University of Birmingham and co-organised with the Italian Studies department «Let’s Queer It(aly)», a series of online meetings about queer culture in Italy, which won the SIS EDI Awards 2021.

• Contents: INTRODUCTION – Portraits of Precarity in Italian Cinema: Unravelling the Collective Italian Sentiment – THE USE OF HUMOUR IN COMEDIES ABOUT PRECARITY – WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MASCULINITY: THE PRECARIOUS CHARACTERS OF EDOARDO LEO AS CASE STUDIES – LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATIONS IN THE CINEMA OF PRECARITY – IMMIGRANT AND G2 CITIZENS IN CINEMA ON PRECARITY – CONCLUSION: WHAT DO THESE CHARACTERS HAVE IN COMMON?

Maria Elena Alampi is currently a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Exeter, working on Italian girlhood and media for the AHRC project «A Girls’ Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian Screen since the 1950s». She obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2021. Her research interests focus on Italian cinema, particularly labour, precarity, and gender representations. She has recently published several articles and co-edited special issues on the themes of precarity and gender. In 2020, she co-founded the international academic network known as The Cinematic Precarity Research Network. Additionally, in 2021, she worked as a Research Assistant for B-Film-International Research Centre of Film Scholars at the University of Birmingham and co-organised with the Italian Studies department «Let’s Queer It(aly)», a series of online meetings about queer culture in Italy, which won the SIS EDI Awards 2021.

• Contents: INTRODUCTION – Portraits of Precarity in Italian Cinema: Unravelling the Collective Italian Sentiment – THE USE OF HUMOUR IN COMEDIES ABOUT PRECARITY – WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MASCULINITY: THE PRECARIOUS CHARACTERS OF EDOARDO LEO AS CASE STUDIES – LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATIONS IN THE CINEMA OF PRECARITY – IMMIGRANT AND G2 CITIZENS IN CINEMA ON PRECARITY – CONCLUSION: WHAT DO THESE CHARACTERS HAVE IN COMMON?