Publications

Just out for the Italian publishing house Mimesis, Bruno Surace’s new book, I volti dell’infanzia nelle culture audiovisive: Cinema, immagini, nuovi media [Infancy’s faces in audiovisual cultures: Cinema, images, new media]. The book is available (only in Italian) in OPEN ACCESS. Synopsis The face of childhood is a cultural object as full of meaning as […]
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NEW PUBLICATION Special Issue of SIGN SYSTEM STUDIES dedicated to the “Cultures of the face”, edited by Remo Gramigna and Massimo Leone. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12697/49.3-4 Editorial Introduction: Studying the ‘facesphere’, Massimo Leone, 270-278  PDF Articles The transcendence of the face: A semiotic-linguistic path, Ugo Volli, 279-297  PDF The face of health in the West and the East: […]
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A new article by FACETS PI Massimo LEONE. After a concise survey of the state of the art on the semiotics of the mask and on studies in humanities and social sciences about medical face masks, the essay provides anecdotic evidence about differences in the semiotics of medical face masks in Europe and in the […]
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