CfP: Int. Conf. "Pasolini and Fassbinder: the European legacy between utopia and nihilism"
- Ort: Cardiff
- Beginn: 24.06.09
- Ende: 26.04.09
- Disziplinen: Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Italienisch
- Frist: 01.12.08
Proposals for papers (approx 150 words) are invited on any comparative
aspect of Pasolini's and Fassbinder's work, including the following (the list is
indicative):
- Class, race, sexuality
- Religion
- Anarchy
- Revolution
- Mythology
- Nationalism
- Cultural memory
- Comedy and/or tragedy
- Violence
- High/popular culture
- European dimension
Pasolini and Fassbinder are amongst the last radical authors to have emerged
in Europe. Born in Italy and Germany, they inherited a traumatic social and
political past which they chose to address either directly or via different
topics related to the cultural memory of Europe. The link between law and
violence is, for instance, a central preoccupation in their works, illustrating
what Georg Simmel called "the tragedy of culture". This tragic dimension is
reflected in their aesthetics through a number of similarly articulated and
unresolved tensions: high and popular cultures, theatre, literature and cinema,
ideology and narration, major and minor codes of expression.
The uncompromising character of Pasolini's and Fassbinder's work, fluctuating
between utopia and nihilism (but also tradition and revolution, mythology and
realism) encourages us to reconsider subjective and collective questions which
from today's perspective seem lost forever. These questions are often
unconsciously embedded in their work and require critical interventions aimed
at locating them against the grain of conventional criticism. To only look at
these questions in the context of the sixties and seventies and their climate
of revolt misses the scope of the two authors' creative undertakings.
The cinemas of Pasolini and Fassbinder present a number of common features
that have generally been neglected by commentators. Our conference aims to
focus on these features, unravelling their potential to speak for a European
identity to come. We believe that the comparison of Pasolini's and Fassbinder's
cinemas might provoke us into asking difficult yet pressing questions such
as 'What is the European culture today?' or 'What does it mean to be
European?'
Organisers: Alexis Nuselovici, Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University)
Venue: Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
Please send your proposals to Fabio Vighi vighif@cardiff.ac.uk and/or Alexis
Nuselovici nuselovicia@cardiff.ac.uk by 1st December 2008 or contact us for
further information.
Dr Fabio Vighi
School of European Studies
65-68 Park Place
Cardiff University
CF10 3AS
Cardiff, Wales
UK
Tel: 029 20875605
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher