[ecrea] Call for abstracts: 'Italian Horror Cinema'

Call For Abstracts



‘Italian Horror Cinema’ – a special edition of the Journal of Italian 
Cinema and Media Studies

Edited by Dr Austin Fisher (Bedfordshire, UK) and Dr Johnny Walker 
(Northumbria, UK)



Italian Film Studies increasingly situates its subject matter within 
discourses that complicate merely ‘national’ orientations, as is evident 
in scholarship surrounding the country’s wide array of horror films from 
the 1950s onwards. It has become common practice to examine in these 
films and their various cycles a tension between a culturally specific 
register pertaining to ‘Italian’ outlooks on the one hand, and 
cosmopolitan, transnational or ‘translocal’ flows of influence on the 
other. Spanning a period of traumatic socio-political upheaval, an 
ever-increasing importation of American fashions and styles, and 
lucrative international co-production models, Italian cinema’s various 
vampires, witches, zombies, cannibals and serial killers document the 
complexities of cultural moments finely perched between the local and 
the global.



This special issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 
will bring together diverse perspectives on the historical and political 
coordinates of Italian horror cinema. Encompassing the broad and porous 
cycles of gothic horror, gialli, zombie and cannibal films (among 
others), the issue will reconsider the heterogeneous strands of 
influence that feed into and out of these films, to examine negotiated, 
transitional and mobile Italian identities.



Likely topics include:

    * Cinematic / literary antecedents to Italian horror films.
    * Studies of Italian horror cinema’s political / historical contexts.
    * Transnational / transcultural routes of influence and cultural 
significance.
    * Industrial histories (e.g. co-production funding structures, key 
production companies).
    * Studies of domestic or international distribution patterns / 
reception.
    * Considerations of individual films / trends.
    * Translation studies / cultural translation.
    * Italian horror auteurs / directors.
    * The on-going global legacies of Italian horror.
    * Italian horror cinema today.



Abstracts of no more than 500 words, along with a short biographical 
note, should be submitted to both (austin.fisher /at/ beds.ac.uk) and 
(johnny.walker /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) by Monday September 15th 2014. Final 
articles will be between 6000 and 8000 words (including notes and 
references, but excluding author biography, keywords and abstract), and 
should be submitted by the end of May 2015. Inclusion in the special 
issue will then be determined by an anonymous peer-review process.



For details of the rationale and requirements of the Journal of Italian 
Cinema and Media Studies, see the journal’s webpage: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=215/view,page=2/



Dr Austin Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at the University of 
Bedfordshire, the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western 
(I. B. Tauris, 2011), and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation 
Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury).



Dr Johnny Walker is a Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, the 
author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and 
Society (EUP, 2015), and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation 
Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury).





Best wishes



Johnny and Austin

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Dr Johnny Walker

Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University, Squires 101d

Tel. (+ 44) 191 227 3920



Founding co-editor of Global Exploitation Cinemas



Web. http://johnny-walker.org



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