Artikelausschreibung: “Other Visions: Contemporary Italian Documentary Cinema as Counter-Discourse” – Special Issue of the journal Studies in Documentary Film
- Disziplinen: Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
- Sprachen: Italienisch
- Frist: 01.03.10
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Other Visions: Contemporary Italian Documentary Cinema as Counter-Discourse”
Special Issue of the journal Studies in Documentary Film
Guest Editors: Anita Angelone (College of William and Mary), and Clarissa Clò (San Diego State University)
Published research on Italian documentary film has been until recently quite rare (Bernagozzi 1985; 1979). In the past decade, however, several new studies broadly assessing the history of the genre in Italy testify to a renewed critical interest as well as a recent surge of activity by independent documentary filmmakers (Bertozzi 2008; 2003).
Numerous films made within the last ten years (and with a sizable international circulation at film festivals, in DVD or on the internet), explore an Italy that is multi-vocal and varied, complex and contradictory, and bear witness to a changing country whose myths, traditions, and identities are undergoing drastic revisions.
Whether concerned with contemporary immigration, women’s, workers’, gay, lesbian and transgender issues and rights, the environment and local sustainability, or tackling older debates such as the southern question, Italian emigration, freedom of speech vs. censorship, and the mafia, it is in documentary (more so than in fictional cinematic discourse) that we see articulated stylistically innovative and creative approaches that challenge established visual forms and regimes and propose new and unprecedented visions.
This growing body of alternative and oppositional films will be the subject of a special issue of Studies in Documentary Film scheduled for mid 2011. The volume will collect together for the first time articles in English by both young and established scholars in order to explore the theories and practices of contemporary documentary film in Italy, as it addresses issues of social justice and proposes new lenses through which to view the various realities of present-day Italy.
The editors welcome essays that address thematic, stylistic and industry-related concerns in individual or groups of documentaries, such as, but not limited to, those suggested.
Other topics, and issues that may be also addressed include the following:
• New video-technologies and networks
• The role and influence of television in Italian society
• Berlusconi’s media monopoly
• Genova’s G8
• Political satire
• A new generation of younger filmmakers
• A growing number of female documentary directors in the industry
• Subaltern voices
• Precarious job and living conditions
Interested contributors should send a 400-500 words abstract and a CV to both editors at anitaangelone@mac.com and cclo@mail.sdsu.edu by March 1, 2010. Complete essays of 5,000-6,000 words of selected proposals will be due by June 30, 2010.
All papers will undergo peer-review by an international board. Please submit final papers as Word documents (no PDFs or RTFs). Include a separate cover page with title, name, contact information. The essay should not contain the name(s) of the author(s) or any indication of author identity.
Authors are also invited to submit reviews (1,000-2,500 words) of books, documentary film conferences or documentary film festivals related to the issue theme.
Suggested Filmography/ Filmografia di riferimento
In un altro paese, dir. Marco Turco, 2005. Biùtiful cauntri, Esmerelda Calabria, Andrea D’Ambrosio, 2008.
Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo, dir. Francesca Comencini, 2002.
Come un uomo sulla terra, dir. Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer, 2006.
Il corpo delle donne, dir. Lorella Zanardo, Marco Malfi Chindemi 2008.
Diario di una siciliana ribelle, dir. Marco Amenta, 1998.
La fabbrica dei tedeschi, dir. Mimmo Calopresti, 2008.
Il fantasma di Corleone, dir. Marco Amenta, 2004. Improvvisamente l’inverno scorso, dir. Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi, 2008.
Io, la mia famiglia rom, e Woody Allen, dir. Laura Halilovic, 2009.
Il mondo addosso, dir. Costanza Quatriglio, 2006. L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, dir. Agostino Ferrente, 2006.
Parole sante, dir. Ascanio Celestini, 2007.
La strada di Levi, dir. Davide Ferrario, 2006.
Viva Zapatero!, dir. Sabina Guzzanti, 2005.
Vogliamo anche le rose, dir. Alina Marazzi, 2007.
Studies in Documentary Film is the first refereed scholarly journal devoted to the history, theory, criticism and practice of documentary film. In recent years we have witnessed an increased visibility for documentary film through conferences, the success of general theatrical release of documentary films and the re-emergence of scholarship in documentary film studies. This journal will provide a home for the considered approach to international documentary film history, theory, criticism and practice serving a vibrant and growing international community of documentary film scholars. Studies in Documentary Film is committed to serving this community through the publication of articles from interdisciplinary, international and cross-cultural perspectives. It invites articles, interviews, reviews and reports covering a range of topics and styles pertinent to documentary film. The journal has engaged a high profile international Editorial Board to oversee contributions and journal directions. The journal invites contributions, in English, from researchers throughout the world seeking to broaden the field of documentary film scholarship.
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Clarissa Clo’, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Italian and European Studies
Director of the Italian Program
San Diego State University
Visiting Research Fellow
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies University of California, San Diego (Winter and Spring 2010)
Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher