[ecrea] CFP - Italian Horror Cinema: an International Film Conference

Call For Papers

Italian Horror Cinema: an International Film Conference

The University of Bedfordshire, Luton, Friday 9th – Saturday 10th May 2014



In association with the second annual ‘Spaghetti Cinema’ Film Festival 
@spaghetticinema



Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Hutchings (Northumbria University).



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 conference will offer delegates the opportunity to 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 many others), 
the event 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 (eg 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.

We seek proposals for 20-minute papers, or for pre-constituted panels of 
three or four papers, that engage with any aspects of the above topic. 
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a short biographical 
note, should be submitted for peer-review to (spaghetticinema /at/ beds.ac.uk) 
by Friday January 17th 2014.



The Department of Media Arts and Production, University of Bedfordshire, 
Park Square, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 3JU, UK.


Dr. Austin Fisher


Senior Lecturer, Media Arts
University Square, A105
University of Bedfordshire
Luton, LU1 3JU
UK

Email: (austin.fisher /at/ beds.ac.uk)
Web: www.austinfisher.me.uk / http://bit.ly/1525TQn



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