Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies is an English-language forum for theoretical, methodological and critical debate on Italian film and media production, reception and consumption. It provides a platform for dialogue between academics, filmmakers, cinema and media professionals.

This special issue is dedicated to the Centennial of Tonino Guerra. Articles include From vernacular art to the auteur moment: Tonino Guerra as a poet, writer and scriptwriter in the 1940s and 1950s by Livio Lepratto, Antonioni’s Anthropocene and Guerra’s enchanting gardens by Elena Past and Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert by Marianna Nespoli.