[Commlist] CFP: Lina Wertmüller symposium

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15th OCTOBER

CALL FOR PAPERS: LINA WERTMÜLLER SYMPOSIUM


The Centre for Research and Media Education (CREAM) at the University of 
Westminster invites proposals for a one-day symposium on the cinema of 
Lina Wertmüller.

The one-day symposium will take place on December 13th, 2019, Regent 
Street Campus, and will be followed by a 6.30pm screening at the Regent 
Street Cinema.

The first woman to ever receive an Academy Award nomination for best 
director for her 1975 film Pasqualino Settebellezze (“Seven Beauties”), 
Lina Wertmüller has rarely been granted the attention she so richly 
deserves, by both audiences and critics.  Often labelled controversial 
and transgressive, her films are indeed quintessentially political, 
addressing matters of class and gender in a bold and innovative manner. 
A truly original voice in an Italian landscape dominated by male 
filmmakers, Wertmüller’s cinema tackles challenging topics with irony 
and levity, producing unforgettably tragi-comic results.

This year Lina Wertmuller’s artistic accomplishments have been 
recognised on the international stage. In May, the restored version of 
Pasqualino Settebellezze premiered at Cannes Film Festival and news 
recently broke that the director will be awarded an Oscars for career 
achievement at the 11th annual Governors Awards ceremony of the Academy 
in October.

In London, the Barbican has dedicated Wertmüller a programme as part of 
their new strand Hidden Figures, which celebrates directors neglected in 
film history. The season, titled ‘Love and Anarchy’, took place 6-31 
March 2019 and saw the screening of four of Wertmüller’s films, as well 
as a documentary about the director:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/series/love-and-anarchy-the-films-of-lina-wertmuller

This one-day symposium aims to bring together scholars in the field of 
film and gender studies to engage with the work of Wertmüller. We invite 
conference-style papers of 15-20 minutes, which focus on aspects of her 
cinemas.
In particular, we welcome proposals on (but not limited to) the 
following topics:
- Lina Wertmuller’s representation of gender relations
- Lina Wertmüller and the Italian film industry
- Lina Wertmüller and production practices
- The evolution of Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato’s characters 
in Lina Wertmüller’s films
- Lina Wertmüller and politics
- Character actors and the Commedia all’Italiana in Lina Wertmüller’s films
- The artistic collaboration between Lina Wertmüller and Enrico Job - 
Lina Wertmüller’s portrayal of masculinity
- Lina Wertmüller’s portrayal of femininity
- The impact Lina Wertmüller on the 1970’s American New Wave - and other 
contemporaneous cinemas
- Lina Wertmüller’s relationship to feminist contemporaneous film practices
- The reception of Lina Wertmüller’s films, both in Italy and abroad
- Lina Wertmüller’s legacy for contemporary film-makers

Submissions:

Proposals of no more than 250 words and a 50-word bio should be sent no 
later than 30th September 2019 to (wertmullersymposium /at/ gmail.com)


Important Deadlines and Dates:

Submission of abstract:
15th October (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

Notification of decisions:
31st October 2019

Participant’s registration deadline:
15th November 2019

Programme – provisional version:
1st December 2019

Disclosure of the final programme:
7th December 2019

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