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Anna Viola Sborgi

Anna Viola Sborgi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa. She holds a PhD in Film Studies (King’s College London) and a PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Genoa). Her research investigates screen and textual representations of London, the home and housing and gentrification. Her current research project focuses on post-2000 representations of high-rise and tower-block living within the London skyline as a space of social and economic negotiation. Recent publications include “Grenfell on Screen” in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto Press, 2019) and “Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary” in Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (EUP, July 2020).

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5March 25, 2020

From Water to Home: Permeability as Social Inclusion (and Exclusion) in Contemporary London

By Anna Viola Sborgi
[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In my previous post I explored formal and …

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no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 22, 2020

Porous Gateways: The London Docklands on Film and as Archive

By Anna Viola Sborgi

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “Porousness and Cities.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]


In this post, I want to reflect on …

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Counterparts, no. 3, vol. 4October 7, 2019

Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium

By Anna Viola Sborgi

Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …

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Footnote, no. 3, vol. 2September 30, 2017

An Update on Grenfell

By Anna Viola Sborgi

[Ed. note: Earlier this issue, we featured an essay by Anna Viola Sborgi on media response to the Grenfell crisis this summer in London. Given the rapidity of developments and their far-reaching implications, we asked Anna to revisit the …

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Commentary, no. 3, vol. 2September 27, 2017

The Day Social Housing Hit Mainstream Media

By Anna Viola Sborgi

On June 14, 2017, a violent fire rapidly engulfed a 24-storey tower-block in West London. Grenfell Tower became the most tragic social housing disaster in Britain to date. Grenfell surged as a symbol of the wider social inequality in the …

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