Chi sono gli Ultraterrestri? Che relazione hanno con Entitá Cattoliche Eminenti come la Madonna? Che intenzioni hanno queste entitá? Perché continuano a lanciare messaggi profetici relativi a catastrofici imminenti eventi? Cosa dobbiamo aspettarci? Da anni si parla di UFO ma il dibattito rimane arenato fra i credenti della ipotesi extraterrestre e gli scettici che negano il fenomeno. Pochissimo viene discusso dei loro occupanti e delle loro intenzioni. In parallelo esiste un il fenomeno collegato ad apparizioni di figure religiose. Esaminati da vicino i due fenomeni rivelano sorprendenti analogie. Questo testo riprende il lavoro dei migliori autori sull'argomento e traccia nuove ipotesi sulla loro provenienza, sulle loro intenzioni e su cosa questo significa per tutti noi.

This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of “alien” immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal “Others,” such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction’s transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.

It has become widely accepted among musicologists that medieval music is most profitably studied from interdisciplinary perspectives that situate it within broad cultural contexts. The origins of this consensus lie in a decisive reorientation of the field that began approximately four decades ago. For much of the twentieth century, research on medieval music had focused on the discovery and evaluation of musical and theoretical sources. The 1970s and 1980s, by contrast, witnessed calls for broader methodologies and more fully contextual approaches that in turn anticipated the emergence of the so-called 'New Musicology'. The fifteen essays in the present collection explore three interrelated areas of inquiry that proved particularly significant: the liturgy, sources (musical and archival), and musical symbolism. In so doing, these essays not only acknowledge past achievements but also illustrate how this broad, interdisciplinary approach remains a source for scholarly innovation.

This volume brings together ten previously uncollected stories and a major unpublished essay, which span nearly thirty years of the career of the noted science fiction writer