Face Studies

Just out for the Italian publishing house Aracne (“I Saggi di Lexia”), a new book edited by Cristina Voto, Elsa Soro, José Luis Fernández and Massimo Leone: Rostrotopías. Mitos, narrativas y obsesiones de las plataformas digitales [Facetopias. Myths, Nostalgias, and Obsessions of the Face in the Digital Metaverse]. The book is available (in Spanish) at this […]

Just out for the Italian publishing house Aracne (“I Saggi di Lexia”), a new book edited by Silvia Barbotto, Cristina Voto and Massimo Leone, Rostrosferas de América Latina. Culturas, traducciones, mestizajes [Latin America’s Rostrospheres. Cultures, translations, crossbreedings]. The book is available (in Spanish) in OPEN ACCESS.   SYNOPSIS ENG This is a volume of semiotics dedicated […]

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 […]

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: […]