22 March 2019
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: Margaret C. Flinn (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: Harry Kashdan (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)