[ecrea] Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies CFP

Italian Cinema in the World


translational and transnational directions of Italian cinema



CALL FOR PAPERS



Themed Issues
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies



DEADLINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2014



At the awards ceremony of the 71st edition of the Venice Film Festival, 
on 6 September 2014, Swedish director Roy Andersson , winner of the 
Golden Lion for Best Film for A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on 
Existence, said in his acceptance speech that Italian films — especially 
Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves — had a major 
impact on him. ‘You have such a fantastic film history,’ he told his 
Italian hosts. ‘And I know that in Italy you have taste.’

Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycles), leading figure of the sixth 
generation of directors in China, and whose new thriller Chuangru 
zhe/Red Amnesia was selected in the competition for the 71st Venice 
Festival, declared during the event ‘ANICA meets China: The Dragon and 
the Butterfly. How Italian cinema can cooperate with China’, on 3 
September 2014, the strong influence of Italian cinema on his work and 
how he was profoundly moved when visiting the places where Fellini shot 8 ½.

Italian cinema is translational, transnational and rhizomatic. It is 
imported and exported, transferred, translated, adopted, adapted and 
re-interpreted. It is also both European and Mediterranean, moves in 
many other less-explored directions towards Africa, Asia, North and 
South America, and constantly intersects with other cinemas.


Consequently, new trends in Italian film studies address cinema 
reflecting a multiethnic Italy, a nation interconnected with other 
continents, and open up a neglected seam: the influence of Italian 
cinema on world cinemas, Italophone filmmakers and diasporic cinemas. 
Within such transnational framework, scholars are invited to engage in a 
methodological tension between studying national cinema and 
transnational critical approaches to Italian cinema, thus recovering 
these overlooked connections and re-composing them in a historic and 
aesthetic map, marked by cross-national dialogues and trans-generational 
exchanges.


Italian cinema today can be viewed as a geo-cultural and spatio-temporal 
bridge for the multidirectional routes connecting the tempestuous 
coalescence of cultures and a landing stage setting the dramaturgy of 
the galloping change of the world ethnic-socio-economic make-up, and 
artistic fabric. Against such a dynamic backdrop of events and in light 
of the historical and artistic influence of Italian cinema on world 
cinemas, the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies inaugurated a 
transnational direction in Italian film studies publishing two themed 
issues (Volume II: 1 and 3, 2014; 
www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=215/) examining 
specifically the intersections between Italian and Chinese/Asian cinemas.


JICMS intends to focus on the rising role that Italian cinema plays in 
the world arena, as well as on cooperation opportunities between Italian 
and foreign film industries. With this CFP, the Editor aims to shift the 
critical paradigm outside the inwardly focused field of Italian film 
studies and invites contributions that would further (1) explore the 
influence of Italian cinema on world cinemas; and (2) investigate how it 
reaches beyond the imagined boundaries of its (pen)insularity.


Abstracts should be sent to the Editor, Flavia Laviosa 
((flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu)) by 30 November 2014, and should include the 
following information:


1)      A 500-word abstract outlining:



a) The topic

b) Critical approach

c) Theoretical bases of the proposed article.


The abstract should clearly state the goals of the article and provide a 
cohesive description of the objective of the argument. In addition to a 
500-word abstract, authors should send:

2)      Relevant bibliography and filmography



3)      200-word biographical notes followed by a detailed list of their 
academic publications

4)      The date of submission of the article, if the proposal is 
accepted, will be within 10 weeks from the official invitation to submit 
the article.



Flavia Laviosa

Department of Italian Studies and Cinema and Media Studies Program

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA 02481

USA

Tel. 781-283-2618


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Flavia Laviosa, Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian Studies & Cinema and Media Studies Program
Director, Winter Session Study Abroad in Rome
Faculty Fellow, Madeleine Albright Institute for Global Affairs
Founder & Editor, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies

Wellesley College, 106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481-USA
Tel. (+1) 781-283-2618 Fax (+1) 781-283-2876

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