The project has a set of case studies, which were picked out using a set of data related to the circulation of Italian cinema abroad in the last ten years (2007-2016). We employed ten criteria that favour the distribution of these films in order to select a final corpus, including:

a. Italian films produced between 1900 and 2005 which circulated in the 4 countries between 2007 and 2016 (so-called “longsellers”);

b. Italian films with a high margin of difference between national and international success, distributed in at least two of the sample countries;

c. Italian films that have been particularly successful in each of the sample countries;

d. Italian films presented (in or out of competition) at the major international film festivals, and/or have received at least one award;

e. Italian films awarded at the most important national and international film awards;

f. Italian films supported with Eurimages funding or the Creative Europe Media program;

g. Films produced by Italian companies that have primarily English-language dialogue;

h. Italian films that appear frequently in the programs of Italian cinema classes at international English language universities;

i. Italian films presented at events organized by Italian Cultural Institutes abroad.

After overlapping the results of these criteria, we identified a limited corpus of 20 Italian films (including majority co-productions). The resultant case studies are the following: