Italian Cinema(s) Abroad

The Mortar Room, Thompson Library (1858 Neil Ave)

• 12.00-1.00 – Welcome Lunch

Greetings by Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Interim Executive Dean and Vice-Provost of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Maria Manca, Consul of Italy in Detroit

• 1.00-1.30 – Opening of the exhibition

Collecting Italian Cinema: Highlights from the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute curated by Beth Kattelman, Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute

Exhibit Open:

• Friday, March 22nd, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday, March 23rd, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Brutus Buckeye Room, The Ohio Union (1739 N High St)

• 1.45-2.00 – Introductory remarks

Dana Renga (The Ohio State University), Damiano Garofalo (Catholic University of Milan) and Luca Peretti (The Ohio State University)

• 2.00-3.45 – Panel 1 – Italian Cinema in North America: Micro and Macro-Histories

Chair: Giuliano Migliori (The Ohio State University)

Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan) – Viewing at Cross Purposes: Cesare Zavattini in America

Christopher Hite (Allan Hancock College) – Audience Reception and Response to Italian Cinema in Western Pennsylvania

Jessica Leonora Whitehead (Ryerson University) – Cinema Preferiti: Canadian Italian Language Film Distribution and Exhibition Networks

Erik Scaltriti (The Ohio State University) – Competing or Collaborating? A Case Study of Postwar Relationships between Hollywood and Cinecittà through the Kiralfy’s Archive

• 3.45-4.00 – Coffee break
• 4.00-5.45 – Panel 2 – Italian Cinema in Europe: International Co-Productions and Foreign Receptions

Chair: Harry Kashdan (The Ohio State University)

Marco Cucco (University of Bologna) – Italian Co-Productions with Foreign Countries: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Trends

Michael R Gott (University of Cincinnati), Screen Borders and “Cinema Worlds”. Migrants and the Mediterranean Italian-French Co-Productions

Lauren De Camilla (The Ohio State University),  Local Motherhood in a Global Community: Social Precarity in Rossella de Venuto’s Controra – House of Shadows

Alfo G. Aguado (New York University), The Screenwriter, the Censor, the Critic. Italian Interventions in 1950s Spanish Communist Cinema

• 6.45 – Reception for participants
• 9.00 – Conference party at Awol Bar (49 Parsons Ave, 43215)

23 March 2019

Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union (1739 N High St)

• 9.30-10.30 – Roundtable – Italian Cinema Abroad Today

Chair: Mackenzie Leadston (The Ohio State University)

Massimo Scaglioni (Catholic University of Milan) – Film Distribution, Film Circulation and the Role of Italy

Paolo Noto (University of Bologna) – Studying the History of Italian Film Distribution Abroad: Sources, Archives, Methods

Emiliano Morreale (Sapienza University of Rome) – Italian Cinema and The International Film Critics

Maria Manca (Consul of Italy in Detroit) – The Promotion of Italian Cinema Abroad through the Diplomatic and Consular Network.

• 10.30-10.45 – Coffee break
• 10.45-12.15 – Panel 3 – Transnational Italian Cinema

Chair: Laura Podalsky (The Ohio State University)

Elena Past (Wayne State University) – Translating Light: Ferrania and the Global Roots of Italian Celluloid

Robert Rushing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) – Italian Cinematic Masculinity: The Italian (Super)hero and Transnational Flow

Damien Pollard (University of Cambridge) – The Ideology of the Voice in Giallo Cinema: Dubbing, Politics, Business

• 12.15-1.15 – Lunch (on own)
• 1.15-2.45 – Panel 4 – Colonial and Fascist Cinema

Chair: Margaret C. Flinn (The Ohio State University)

Gianmarco Mancosu (University of Warwick) – Italian Cinema in the Fascist Empire. Projects, Spaces, and Audiences

Richard Fletcher (The Ohio State University) – Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema on Greek Public Television: Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s Pays Barbare at documenta 14

Pietro Bianchi (Duke University) – The Colonial Desire of Recognition in Giorgio Moser’s Violenza segreta

• 2.45-4.30 – Panel 5 – Third-Worldism and Beyond

Chair: Danielle Marx-Scouras (The Ohio State University)

Luca Caminati (Concordia University) – Italian Cinema(s) Abroad Weaponized

Kaitlyn Zozula (Concordia University) – Projecting Revolution: Empire, The American Art-Cinema Industry, and the Political Mythologization of The Battle of Algiers

Charles Leavitt (University of Notre Dame) – ‘A Long Way From Home’: Italian Identity in Natale al Campo 119

Rocco Giansante (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Besieged in Israel: Gilberto Tofano films the aftermath of the Six Day war

• 4.30-4.45 Coffee break

Hays Cape Room, The Ohio Union (1739 N High St)

• 4.45-6.15 – Panel 6 – Italian Transnational Seriality

Chair: Daniel Paul (The Ohio State University)

Luca Barra (University of Bologna) – Scheduling/Releasing Italian Cinema Abroad. Some Issues and Trajectories of Television and Digital Distribution

Sean O’Sullivan (The Ohio State University) – The Best of Youth and the Limits of Seriality

Dana Renga (The Ohio State University) – Italian Television Abroad

• 6.15-6.30 – Final remarks
• 7.30 – Dinner for participants at Strongwater (401 W. Town St, 43215)