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Gianluca D'Agostino is an Italian journalist

Journalist

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and scholar.

Journalism

He worked for CNN

CNN

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in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

and for Associated Press Television in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

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He is mostly known for an interview with Larry King

Larry King

Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....

in which the entertainer reveals his feelings about his job. D'Agostino also questioned Bill Gates

Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...

right after the 1998 filing of the Microsoft antitrust case.
D'Agostino writes for the progressive political website Atlantic Free Press

Atlantic Free Press

Atlantic Free Press, an online political website, was founded in September 2006 by Publisher Richard Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in Groningen, The Netherlands and has published over 13,000 articles from over 300 progressive writers worldwide since its inception.The publication's mission ...

and for American Chronicle.

60 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In 2008 D'Agostino curated the authors selection for the book "Stories on human rights" for the celebration of the 60 anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly . The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled...

.The book was sponsored by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and published by Mondadori Electa. The book aims to increase peoples' knowledge of their rights, improve knowledge of themes associated with the Declaration of Human Rights and raise public awareness. D'Agostino assigned an author for each of the Themes assigned by the OHCHR. Themes included: justice and dignity, culture, environment, development, gender, participation. The authors selected by D'Agostino for the Human Rights stories book are the following:

Culture
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

Development
Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini , is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician of ethnic Tajik origin. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide....

Roberto Saviano

Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings, articles, television programs, and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra , exposing its territory and business connections.Since 2006, following the publication of his bestselling...

Dignity and Justice
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...

Environment
Josè Saramago

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...

, Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She worked in commercial television and media production for over a decade and made several independent films before turning to writing fiction.-Life:...

,

Gender
Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar

Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen , an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers...

Mo Yan

Mo Yan is a modern Chinese author, described as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers". He is known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film Red Sorghum. He has been referred to as the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller...

Participation
Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist.-Early years:Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother. As a child, he attended school at Kallafo in the Ogaden, and studied English, Arabic, and Amharic. In 1963, three years after Somalia's independence, Farah...

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...

The themes have been developed through short literary text that every author donated for the celebration. The book has been published into three languages (English, French, Italian) and distributed all over the world.

Baaria: the book

On September 2, 2009,D'Agostino presented the book "Baaria" at the 66th Venice International Film Festival

66th Venice International Film Festival

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. The book is a series of interviews to the technical cast of Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore

-Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

's movie Baaria and it is published by Electa Mondadori.

Research activity

D'Agostino holds a Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

in Theory of Information and Communication obtained at the Università di Macerata During his Ph.D years D'Agostino joined several academic institutions abroad as Visiting Scholar

Visiting scholar

In the world of academia, a visiting scholar or visiting academic is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university, where he or she is projected to teach , lecture , or perform research on a topic the visitor is valued for...

: The Public Communication Department at Fordham University

Fordham University

Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

, the Film Studies Program at the University of California Berkeley and the English Department at Stanford. For his research and his final work he cooperated with major American academics like: Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson

Paul Levinson is an American author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages....

, Henry Breitrose, Kristin Thompson

Kristin Thompson

Kristin Thompson is an American film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films, the history of film styles, and "quality television", a genre akin to art film. She wrote two scholarly books in the 1980s which used an analytical technique called...

, David Bordwell

David Bordwell

David Bordwell is an American film theorist and film historian. Since receiving his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1974, he has written more than fifteen volumes on the subject of cinema including Narration in the Fiction Film , Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema , Making Meaning , and On the...

, Linda Williams

Linda Williams

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, Tino Balio and Lew Hunter

Lew Hunter

Lewis R. Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television...

who also wrote the foreword of Gianluca D'Agostino's book on High Concept.

High Concept

In 2009 D'Agostino published "High Concept" an essai from his doctoral thesis that aims at reconstructing the meaning of High Concept. The book analyzes the relationship between marketing and narrativea in Hollywood movies starting from when Barry Diller was a programming Executive at ABC and produced MFT.
D'Agostino spent most of his Ph.d research time at the Department of English at Stanford University, where he worked as Researcher at the Center for the Study of the Novel with Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti

Franco Moretti is an Italian literary scholar, trained as a Marxist critic, whose work focuses on the history of the novel as a "planetary form". He has written five books, Signs Taken for Wonders , The Way of the World , Modern Epic , Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900 , and Graphs, Maps,...

He is also the founder of BananaRAM, the Italian New Media Art Festival.

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