beppe severgnini@belgrado
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, media
Beppe Severgnini is a well-known Italian journalist, columnist in Corriere della Sera daily, a former correspondent of The Economist, as well as the author of several books, which regardless of whether they deal with how Italians are navigating the living in the Western world or explain the mystery of Italy to the foreigners, are united [...]
Tags: beppe severgnini, italians, italy, la bella figura
country brend index 2008
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under advertising
A week ago, I got an e-mail from a friend, sending me the latest report “Country Branding Index 2008”, issued by the Future Brand agency. As I participated in the poll, I was particularly interested in the results.
The methodology FB employs is trying to be really precise – they interview 2,700 travelers (both business and [...]
Tags: country brend index, italy, nation branding, serbia, uk
gomorrah, or things you can do before 30
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films, popcult
Encouraged by a few classes of Italian and previous knowledge of Spanish, I thought to myself “let’s watch a film in a movie theatre”. Italian, of course. I hate dubbed films. So, this spring, while I was in Florence, the first film I ever saw in Italian without subtitles was Gomorrah, directed by Mateo Garrone, [...]
Tags: films, gomorrah, italy, roberto saviano
