[ecrea] Call for Paper: Italy and its audiences

italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
*CFP: ITALY AND ITS AUDIENCES: 1945 TO THE *
*PRESENT CONFERENCE*
*Oxford Brookes University, 7-8 July 2016*

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*Confirmed keynote speakers:*

*Robert C. Allen (University of North Carolina)*

*Mariagrazia Fanchi (Catholic University of Milan)*

*Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University)*

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In recent years studies of audiences and reception in
the Italian context have flourished, both in relation to cinema (see
Fanchi 2014; Casetti and Fanchi 2006; Fanchi and Mosconi 2002; Treveri
Gennari, Hipkins and O’Rawe 2011) and television and new media (see
Barra 2015; Scaglioni 2013; Penati 2013). This work situates itself in
the broader context of analyses of the empirical spectator in
Anglo-American film history (see Allen 2006, 2007, 2011; Biltereyst,
Maltby, and Meers 2012; Maltby 2011). The conference aims to bring
together for the first time scholars working on spectators
andaudiences of Italian film, television, and new media. We particularly
welcome contributions in the following areas:

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    Methodological approaches: oral history, ethnography, statistical
    surveys, mapping audiences

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    Genre and star reception by audiences

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    Gender, class, race and sexuality

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    Geographical and topographical emphases in audience work: rural and
    urban, North and South, centres and peripheries

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    Diaspora and
    mobility: audiences outside Italy/audiences within Italy consuming
    non-Italianproductions

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    Audience behaviours and fan cultures

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    Memorabilia and material culture

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    Age and generations within spectatorship

*Submissions should be:*

250-300 word abstracts with a bibliography of 3-4 titles.

Abstracts should be submitted *by 30th January 2016* to the conference
organisers at:

(italiancinemaudiences /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(italiancinemaudiences /at/ gmail.com)>

Abstracts should follow this order:

 1.

    author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract,
    e) body of abstract, f) bibliography

E-mails should be entitled: Italy and its Audiences Abstract Submission.

We will acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted.
If you do not receive a reply from us in two weeks, you should assume we
did not receive your proposal.

Pre-formed panels are welcome and papers can be submitted both
in Italian and in English.


--
Dr Daniela Treveri Gennari

Reader in Film Studies
School of Arts
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP

email: (dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)
<mailto:(dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)>

*http://www.italiancinemaaudiences.org/*

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