[Commlist] CFP Gender and labour in the Italian screen industries: Critical research approaches and methods

*Gender and labour in the Italian screen industries: Critical research 
approaches and methods*


CALL FOR PAPERS


Special issue of Comunicazioni Sociali - Journal of Media, Performing 
Arts and Cultural Studies (Scopus indexed; A-class rated ANVUR) edited 
by Rosa Barotsi, Gloria Dagnino and Carla Mereu Keating


In the last twenty years, increasing scholarly attention has been 
devoted to the screen industries as a workplace and as a site of 
institutional and individual cultural and creative practice (e.g., Deuze 
2007; Mayer, Banks and Caldwell 2009; Hesmondhalgh and Baker 2010). 
Studies in this field have often centred on film, television and 
audiovisual media production (e.g., Caldwell 2008; Barra, Bonini and 
Splendore 2016; Comand and Venturini 2021), although forms of labour in 
circulation, promotion and reception of media texts have also attracted 
interest (e.g. Loist 2011; Grainge and Johnson 2015; Fanchi and Garofalo 
2018; Treveri Gennari et al. 2020). Within these studies, a number of 
scholars have interrogated and utilised gender as an analytic category 
in order to expose and criticise unequal and divisive labour dynamics 
(e.g., Foster 1997; Gaines, Vatsal and Dall’Asta 2013-; Bell 2021). The 
gendered division of labour and the systematic exclusion of 
female-identifying professionals in the screen industries persistently 
emerge as global, transnational issues (e.g., Gledhill and Knight 2015; 
Hole, Jelača, Kaplan and Petro 2016; Liddy 2020). In Italy, pioneering 
studies on women’s labour in the audiovisual sector can be traced back 
to the 1970s (Bellumori 1972; Carrano 1977), but it is only in recent 
years that a gender perspective has been taken on more systematically, 
focusing on directors (e.g., Scarparo and Luciano 2010, 2013, 2020; 
Cantini 2013) as well as other above- and below-the-line professions 
(e.g., Dall’Asta 2008; Cardone and Fanchi 2011; Cardone, Jandelli and 
Tognolotti 2015; Buffoni 2018; Missero 2022).


This concerted academic attention continues to raise a number of 
critical, theoretical and methodological, questions: how instrumental is 
the category of gender in exposing power dynamics and labour relations 
in the Italian past and present screen industries? How can we uphold 
intersectional feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives of gender and 
labour in meaningful ways? How do we redress long-established 
heteronormative and binary approaches? Finally, how do we tackle 
historical bias in archival practice and engage with the promises and 
limitations of digital technologies?


This special journal issue aims to foreground a range of research 
approaches and methods to document the intersection between gender and 
labour from a diachronic or synchronic perspective. It welcomes a 
variety of theoretical frameworks and applied case studies that identify 
and engage (self-)critically with past and present understandings of 
gendered specialisation and discrimination in the Italian screen 
industries, also from comparative and/or transnational perspectives. 
This issue concurrently serves as a platform for screen industry 
scholars and practitioners to reflect critically on historical relations 
of gender bias and power in the research process, calling them to 
examine consciously and explicitly the assumptions that underpin their 
approaches and methods and the nature and availability of their archives 
and data resources. We are also interested in contributions from 
educators and practitioners whose work integrates ethical principles in 
the formulation of innovative research-led teaching and creative practice.


Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas of 
investigation:

*Methodological challenges in gender-based studies of Italian screen 
industries.

*Gendered labour and working conditions in the Italian screen industries.

*Screen labour historiography and historical revisionism.

*Screen labour and intersectional, transfeminist, decolonial and 
disability studies.

*Critical inclusion studies and Italian screen industries.

*Questioning normative frameworks of employment in the Italian screen 
industries (political, economic, legal, policy-based).

*Histories of hidden, forgotten and/or marginalised figures in Italian 
screen labour.

*Gendered labour in Italian promotional screen industries.

*Ethics and aesthetics of representation, casting and performance.

*Archival research methods, experiences, challenges (politics of archiving).

*Datafication of screen research (materiality, typology, bias, 
interpretation and politics of data).

*Digital Humanities and research on screen labour (mapping, immersive, 
digitisation, online sources).


Submission details:

Please send your abstract and a 150 words biographical note by May 15, 
2022 to:

(redazione.cs /at/ unicatt.it)<mailto:(redazione.cs /at/ unicatt.it)>

(roza.barotsi /at/ unicatt.it)<mailto:(roza.barotsi /at/ unicatt.it)>

(gloria.dagnino /at/ usi.ch)<mailto:(gloria.dagnino /at/ usi.ch)>

(c.mereukeating /at/ bristol.ac.uk)<mailto:(c.mereukeating /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>


Abstracts should be between 300 to 400 words of length (in English). All 
submissions should include: 5 keywords, name of author(s), institutional 
affiliation, contact details and a short bio for each author. Authors 
will be notified of proposal acceptance by May 30, 2022.


If the proposal is accepted, the author(s) will be asked to submit the 
full article, in English, by September 18, 2022. Please note that NO 
article processing fee will be required.

Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and 
is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Articles must not exceed 5’000/6’000-words (including references)


For more information: 
http://comunicazionisociali.vitaepensiero.com/news-call-for-papers-cfp-gender-and-labour-in-the-italian-screen-industries-critical-research-approaches-and-methods-5801.html


Contributions will be submitted to a double-blind peer review process.

The issue number 1.2023 of Comunicazioni Sociali will be published in 
April, 2023.


“Comunicazioni Sociali” is indexed in Scopus and it is an A-class rated 
journal by ANVUR in: Cinema, photography and television (L-ART/06), 
Performing arts (L-ART/05), and Sociology of culture and communication 
(SPS/08).
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