[ecrea] Cinematic Journeys of Italian Women Directors

> From Flavia Laviosa
>
> Call for submissions 
>
> Cinematic Journeys of Italian
> Women Directors 
>
>  The publication of Off
> Screen Women and Film in Italy, edited by Giuliana Bruno and Maria
> Nadotti (Routledge, 1988); The Women’s Companion to International
> Film, edited by Annette Kuhn and Susannah Radstone (Virago Press,
> 1990); and Dizionario delle registe. L’altra metà del
> cinema, by Tiziano Sossi (Gremese Editore, 2000), marks the
> beginning of international academic interest in Italian women filmmakers.
> Following these works, articles and chapters have appeared in journals
> and edited volumes, and monographic books on the most prominent women
> directors have been published, thus recognizing the contribution of these
> artists to the history of Italian cinema. 
>
> Contemporary feature, documentary,
> short, and art films represent several trajectories of cinema, whose
> lines at times become more and more permeable. Such blurred boundaries
> inspire new aesthetic styles and more engaging stories. The recurrent
> hybridization of narratives and perspectives leads Italian women
> directors to pioneer unchartered territories, and to be at the forefront
> of efforts to produce militant national and trans-national cinema. Their
> art is no longer ‘un cinema altro,’ as viewed in the Seventies and
> Eighties, but it expresses a uniquely creative and dynamic ‘alteritÃ
> ’ within the Italian cinema industry. 
>
> Italian women filmmakers set their
> narratives in a milieu of national and diasporic identities,
> post-national contexts, and trans-cultural transformations. They also
> weave together private spheres and public events, revisit historical
> wounds, explore contemporary realities, and assemble these elements as
> the tiles of a socio-political and inter-cultural mosaic, while creating
> a montage of artistic documents and testimonies. 
>
> This call for submissions seeks
> contributions on Italian women directors of different cinematic forms:
> feature, documentary, short, and art films. The editor welcomes essays
> with a theoretical, critical, and textual analysis of thematic and
> stylistic features in individual directors. Proposals should focus on one
> director’s body of work.
>
> Interested contributors should send a
> 500-word abstract (in English), with filmography and bibliography, as
> well as a 200-word bio, to Flavia Laviosa at
> (flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu)
> , by June 30, 2010. 
>
> Notification of the selected
> abstracts will be sent by July 31, 2010. Complete 6,500-word original
> essays (in English) will be due by November 15, 2010.
>
> Only proposals from faculty, who
> demonstrate conspicuous excellence in publishing on cinema, and
> specifically on Italian cinema, will be considered. 
>
> Proposals of essays already
> accepted/published (partially or completely) in other collections or
> academic journals, should not be submitted as they will not be
> considered. Contributions will be reviewed by external readers, and
> publication of the edited volume will be pursued with a major
> publisher.
>
> Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in
> the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her research
> interests are in Italian cinema and specifically Italian women directors.
> She is the editor of Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in
> the Mediterranean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

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