[ecrea] AATI-Naples conference CFP Innovations and tensions in Italian and world cinema

*Title of the session: Innovations and tensions in Italian and world
cinema *

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Session organizer: Flavia Laviosa (Wellesley College, /Editor of the
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies/)


*Abstract of the session*

Within the realm of a trans-cultural debate, Italy can be viewed as a
unifying geo-cultural locus for a contemporary discussion on
/translocal/ cinema, thus fostering new theoretical frameworks and
critical methodologies to elaborate a multifaceted definition of Italian
cinema, transcending geo-ethnic frontiers, land and sea borders, and
moving away from merely celebratory localized (pen)insular cinematic
experiences. Epochal transformations since the twentieth century have
reassessed Italy’s /translocality/ and its cinema has become
quintessentially global, artistically perceptive and alert, receptive
and responsive to international influences. Furthermore, Italian cinema
in a transnational context is multiple and rhizomatic. It is both
European and Mediterranean, and moves in many other less-explored
directions towards Africa, Asia, North and South America. Within such
transnational framework, scholarship engages in a methodological tension
between studying Italian ‘national’ cinema and transnational critical
approaches to Italian cinema, thus recovering these overlooked
connections and re-composing them in an historic and aesthetic map,
marked by cross-national dialogues and trans-generational exchanges.
This direction is inevitably necessary to articulate a debate tackling
the ties of Italian cinema with the rest of the world.  Such ‘tension’
is, in fact, a spring-board for a more stimulating intellectual
discourse that establishes a new theoretical canon and re-defines the
field of Italian film studies. In this session presenters identify
innovations and tensions shaping contemporary Italian cinema productions
and establishing new encounters with world cinema.
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Proposals of articles should be entirely original and unpublished.

Submit a title, a 100 word professional biography, and a 250 word
proposal to Flavia Laviosa at (flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu)
<mailto:(flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu)> by 31 January 2016.

*Flavia Laviosa*
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies & Cinema and Media Studies
Director, Foreign Language Faculty Seminar
Director, Rome Winter Session Program
Wellesley College

Editor, /Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies/
Certified ACTFL OPI Trainer and Tester, Italian





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