Catherine O'Rawe is Professor of Italian Film and Culture at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of Stars and Masculinities in Italian Cinema (2014), and co-author of Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Divi: la mascolinità nel cinema italiano (2015). She has published widely on stardom, gender, performance, and audiences.