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Robert Gordon works on modern literature, cinema and cultural history, focussing in particular on Italy. He is the author or editor of over fifteen book-length works, including a monograph on the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pasolini. Forms of Subjectivity), several volumes on the work of Primo Levi (e.g. Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues, Auschwitz Report, The º£½ÇÉçÇø Companion to Primo Levi, Innesti, Primo Levi magico), and a major study of the wider field of postwar cultural responses to the Holocaust (The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010).ÌýHe is also the co-editor of the collection Holocaust Intersections, a special issue of the Jewish history journal Quest, and the volume Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy. His work on cinema includes the book on Pasolini, the BFI Film Classics volume Bicycle Thieves, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries, and articles and essays on diverse topics including Holocaust cinema, early film and literature, 'Hollywood on the Tiber', AntonioniÌýand Gianfranco Rosi. He hasÌýalso written a general account of modern Italian literature, A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature. He recently published a comparative study on the role and function of luck in modern narrative (Modern Luck). He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and º£½ÇÉçÇø, is a former Senior Editor of the journal Italian Studies, a former member of the Council of the British School at Rome, and was electedÌýa Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.

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