[ecrea] CfP “The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh” and the giallo: an International Film Conference

“The
Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh” and the giallo: an International Film
Conference

Hosted by the Austrian Historical Institute and
Sheffield Hallam University’s Department of Humanities
in cooperation with Cineteca Nazionale


The giallo is a cinema of leather gloves and razors, of inappropriate 
pathos, which dignifies murder as an artistic act. It is a guilty 
pleasure whose concise mannerism represents a unique phenomenon within 
the history of European film. Mario Bava who conceived the formula with 
“The Evil Eye” (1963) provided its first masterpiece with “Blood and 
Black Lace” (1964) to inspire very heterogeneous successors. Dario 
Argento, Massimo Dallamano, Luciano Ercoli, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi 
and, especially, Sergio Martino are the most influential but only a few 
of all the directors producing perhaps more than 200 gialli in the 
1970s. Through the DVD boom, a new generation of cinephiles has gained 
access to the popular film cycle, which has been enthusiastically 
embraced. The conference, whose aim is to explore the genre beyond 
Bava's and Argento's well-studied contributions, takes Sergio Martino’s 
“The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh” (1971) as a focal point, but proposals on
 other films are just as welcome.

Likely topics include:

•        Cinematic characteristics of the film cycle
•        Configurations of the set piece
•        The significance of film music (of, e. g., Bruno Nicolai, 
Stelvio Cipriani or Ennio Morricone)
•        The giallo as a transnational phenomenon
•        Production/distribution/exhibition/reception contexts
•        The construction of authorship
•        Generic hybridity/the giallo’s relation to coeval popular film 
cycles
•        Cross-media appropriations
•        Studies of specific films or remakes
•        Archival sources stemming from giallo productions

Of course, the topics above are to be understood merely as suggestions 
and not as constraints.

We are delighted to announce Professor Richard Dyer (King's College 
London) as our distinguished keynote speaker. On the evening of June 7, 
"The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh" will be screened at the Cinema Trevi 
and followed by a panel discussion with director Sergio Martino, 
screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi and leading actor George Hilton.

Venue: Österreichisches Historisches Institut, Viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113,
I-00197 Roma

Date: June 7–9, 2015

Deadline for submission: For presentations (max. 20 minutes) in English,
please submit a short abstract (title, topic, resources) and a current CV
by February 20, 2015. Notification by the end of February.

Contact: Andreas Ehrenreich, Sheffield Hallam University,
(andreas.ehrenreich /at/ student.shu.ac.uk)



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