Angela Dalle Vacche

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Angela Dalle Vacche is a professor emerita at the Georgia Institute of Technology in its School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She is a scholar of film studies, specializing in world cinema and Italian cinema, and has written several books. Vacche has explored the role of gender in Italian cinema. In her book Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema, she explored the Italian diva and the “emancipation and self-discovery” that the character offers its female audience.