No 6 (2020)

Kids Don’t Just Wanna Have Fun. Material Girls, Wild Boys, and the Melancholic Eighties

Editors for this issue: Maria Giovanna Fusco (University of L’Aquila) and Fiorenzo Iuliano (University of Cagliari

Table of Contents

Editorial
Marta Cariello, Serena Guarracino
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Introduction.
Maria Giovanna Fusco, Fiorenzo Iuliano
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The Last (Resort) of England. Melancholy, Delusion and Disillusion in the Mid-Eighties
Silvia Albertazzi
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“The Damned Don’t Cry”: Melancholia and White British Masculinity in 1980s Synthpop Music
Mica Hilson
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“Who Wants to Live Forever?” Andrew Holleran, Garth Greenwell, and The Gayest Decade That Never Ended
John Hawley
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“Such a resigned, melancholy pucker”. Gli Eighties tra ironie, ipocrisie, fragilità e crisi della “vecchia” Englishness
Alessia Polatti
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Students’ Quests in Liu Sola’s Post/Modernist Narrative: You Have No Other Choice and Chaos and All That
Serena Fusco
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Are We Really Going Back to Derry? Revisiting the 1980s Through Stephen King’s It and Its Recent Adaptations
Nicolangelo Becce
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Never Knew love Like this Before: Signifyin(g) the Invisibility of Black Death in the 1980s Ballroom Culture
Giuseppe Polise
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No Longer, Not Yet: Retrofuture Hauntings on The Jetsons
Stefano Morello
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Comedic Coping: Humour Techniques and Melancholia in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice
Matthew McKeague
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Queer Melancholia in The Lost Language of Cranes: The Novel, the Film and the Search for Language
Angelo Monaco
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Tondelli and Morrissey: Separate rooms, Connecting rooms
Giulio Carlo Pantalei
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Youthful Melancholy: The Loss of Innocence in Another Country and The Company of Wolves
Amy Wai Sum Lee
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Malinconica Moana, morte e malattia sullo sfondo del porno italiano
Sofia Torre
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From the Back of the Shelf

La provincia italiana e l’eredità degli anni Ottanta in Andrea Demarchi
Andrea Palermo
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Reviews

Writing Cyprus Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space
Jacqueline Jondot
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