Sema Bellido holds a PhD tn Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid. She worked in several media (television and radio) before turning to the academic life and becoming a professor of Image Culture at Villanueva University (Madrid).
she has also participated in several research groups related to the new trends in the Fiction/Non-Fiction paradigm in Spanish audiovisual discourse, as well as on the protection of minors and and the relationship between television and childhood. She currently resides in Rome, where she combines her work as aq Communications consultant with research at the School of Communication at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
This book was written for the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the School of Church Communications, which was founded in 1996 as part of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Although several of its professors and collaborators have participated as authors, these pages are not intended as a review the brief history of the School. Rather, they aim to be a collective reflection on people, themes and events of the final years of the 20th Century and the beginning of the Current one, which can teach us much about the communication of, in and from the Church. It has been a time rich in significant events and changes - the new millennium, the digital revolution, the economic and migratory crises, the global pandemic — which have produced major cultural transformations and veritable tsunamis in the world of communication. Communicating the faith and the Christian experience is the task of all the members of the Church. But it is also true that communication professionals and academics nave a special responsibility in this task. We hope that this book can contribute to the appreciation and promotion of the role of communication in the Catholic Church, by taking stock of the work done in these twenty-five years, reflecting on the lessons learned and showing the challenges that lie on the horizon.
Il Volume vuole essere la prima biografia completa dell'imprenditore toscano (Forte dei Marmi 1898-Firenze 1971) che dedicò tutta la sua vita alla promozione del nostro artigianato artistico nel mondo. Fino ad arrivare, nell'immediato dopo guerra, al lancio della moda come sistema; fenomeno che sancì la definitiva affermazione dello stile italiano sui mercati internazionali. Nello svolgersi del racconto alla dimensione privata si sovrappone quella imprenditoriale che permette di ricostruire il percorso attraverso il quale i prodotti italiani cominciarono ad essere distribuiti all'estero fino a far diventare il Made in Italy un marchio tra i più apprezzati al mondo. Il libro, che riempie una lacuna, dato lo scarso materiale disponibile sul'argomento, si avvale delle fonti inedite e dell'ampia raccolta iconografica presenti nel Fondo G.B. Giorgini depositato dagli eredi all'Archivio di Stato di Firenze. Il suo intento è di affiancare a una rigorosa ricostruzione storica dei rapporti commerciali intercorsi, principalmente ma non solo tra Italia e USA, nel periodo 1920-1970, una dimensione divulgativa, favorita dalla ricchezza dell'apparato iconografico.