In the Glow of the City: Lighting Urban Space as an Expressive Tool in the Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci

Panza, Sofia and Carlo Ugolotti

Sofia Panza

Sofia Panza (sofia.panza@unipr.it) is a Ph.D. student in Philological-Literary, Historical-Philosophical and Artistic Sciences at the University of Parma with a research project entitled Pre-production Film Traces: exploring the Bertolucci Archive. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Multimedia Communication (University of Parma, 2022). She is Journal Manager of the academic journal Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

In the Glow of the City: Lighting Urban Space as an Expressive Tool in the Cinema of Bernardo Bertolucci

Sofia Panza and Carlo Ugolotti

Sofia Panza and Carlo Ugolotti examine the expressive and psychological uses of light in the city films of Bernardo Bertolucci.