[ecrea] CFP - Italian Cinema(s) Abroad

Call for Papers - Conference "Italian Cinema(s) Abroad"

The Ohio State University – Columbus, March 22-23, 2019
Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2018
Info: https://www.italiancinema.it/italian-cinemas-abroad/

International conference sponsored by: The Department of French and 
Italian at The Ohio State University, CinCit – Circolazione 
Internazionale del Cinema Italiano/International Circulation of Italian 
Cinema (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Sapienza 
Università di Roma, Università di Bologna), The Italian Cultural 
Institute in Chicago, The French and Italian Graduate Student 
Association at The Ohio State University (FIGSA)

Conference Organizers: Demetrio Antolini (The Ohio State University), 
Damiano Garofalo (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano), Lora 
Jury (The Ohio State University), Emiliano Morreale (Sapienza Università 
di Roma), Paolo Noto (Università di Bologna), Luca Peretti (The Ohio 
State University), Dana Renga (The Ohio State University), Massimo 
Scaglioni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano)

At the beginning of the past century, Italian film pioneers such as Luca 
Comerio or Giovanni Vitrotti travelled the world to shoot and project 
films. Later, Cabiria and other Italian silent films became world-wide 
successes, as was the case with neorealist films in the aftermath of 
WWII, which appeared in locations varying from Times Square to pre- and 
post-revolutionary Cuba. Much like their predecessors in Italian cinema 
– the likes of Cavani, Leone, Pasolini, Antonioni or Bertolucci – more 
recently Italian directors are turning to non-national shooting location 
and languages. Exotic and faraway lands are a recurrent topoi in Mondo 
films or the cinepanettoni. Italian cinema is inherently transnational; 
from its outset to today, auteur and popular cinema makes ample use of 
foreign locations, funding, and employees.

This conference seeks to examine Italian national cinema outside of 
national borders, and will reflect upon what happens when a reportedly 
strong national cinema is displaced abroad. We encourage the submission 
of papers on films made by Italians abroad, on travel films, 
co-productions, on colonial and post-colonial filmic texts, on films on 
emigrant communities or those that depict Italian workers abroad, and on 
international co-productions that question whether an “Italian cinema” 
even exists. We welcome papers that look at the films themselves, their 
production histories, on their afterlife, on their reception, marketing, 
and distribution patterns, in cinemas and other venues.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• The circulation of Italian cinema abroad
• Audiences, reception, marketing, distribution
• Italian cinema and the use of foreign locations, funding, and labour
• The gendered circulation and reception of Italian cinema abroad
• The overseas as a comic trope
• Exoticism in Italian cinema
• Italian films featured on Netflix, Hulu, and other online platforms, 
in-flight entertainment, business fairs etc.
• The global reception of, for example, the spaghetti western, the 
slasher, the giallo, neorealism, the poliziottesco
• Recent Italian productions in English
• Specific case studies; for example, The Battle of Algiers, Once Upon A 
Time In America, Pasolini’s “Third World” films, Antonioni’s films in 
English and in China, etc.

We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts 
should be between 150-200 words in length and should be accompanied by a 
brief biographical blurb. The deadline for submissions is 15 December 
2018. Accepted papers will be confirmed by 5 January 2019. The language 
of the conference is English. Please send abstracts to (peretti.3 /at/ osu.edu) 
<mailto:(peretti.3 /at/ osu.edu)> and (damiano.garofalo /at/ unicatt.it) 
<mailto:(damiano.garofalo /at/ unicatt.it)>.
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Damiano Garofalo
_https://unicatt.academia.edu/DamianoGarofalo_
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