Symposium on Contemporary Italian Cinema at Indiana University 2010

Symposium on Contemporary Italian Cinema at Indiana University 2010

April 7-10, 2010

Call for Papers on Contemporary Italian Cinema

Submissions are being accepted for original research on the importance of new directors and trends in Italian cinema. Topics may include: recent research on directors, regulation and funding with regard to film production in Italy, individual film analysis, the influence of international cinema on contemporary Italian cinema, the influence of Italian cinema on international cinema, the importance of photography or music in contemporary Italian cinema, the representation of family and gender, the issue and experience of otherness, the search for cultural and spiritual identity, and cinema as a pedagogical tool in the foreign language classroom.
Proposals on Italophone cinema are also encouraged: namely, the cinema of North and
South America, Australia, the Mediterranean world and Africa, that deal with the Italian experience outside of Italy.
A major contemporary Italian filmmaker will be present as keynote speaker.
Papers should be written in the language with which the reader feels most comfortable
(Italian or English) and should be limited to no more than 18 minutes (8-9
doubled-spaced pages). One-page abstracts should be sent electronically (Word attachment only) by Dec.
31, 2009 or before to Antonio Vitti (ancvitti@indiana.edu), to Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
(yancm@indiana.edu) and to Andrea Ciccarelli (aciccare@indiana.edu).