Proposed Panel: Cinescapes: Traversing the Onscreen City
Organizer Name: Gloria Monti
Radio-TV-Film
Cal State University Fullerton
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Summary
A significant body of scholarly work analyzes filmic
representations of the city: The Cinematic City (1997), Cinema and the
City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (2001), Screening
the City (2003), From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European
Cinema (2003), Cinematic Urbanism: A History of the Modern from Reel
to Real (2006). This panel seeks to explore a specific aspect of this
urban-cinematic relationship by examining the work of a number of
actors whose personae embody the idea of a particular city. For
example, Woody Allen, Spike Lee and New York, Anna Magnani, Nanni
Moretti, and Rome, Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky saga and Philadelphia,
the New Wave actors and Paris, but also the Frankie Avalon-Annette
Funicello duo and Malibu.
A symbiotic relationship is established between character and city by
way of the actor’s travels all over town: Stallone’s Rocky
running-training regimen through Philadelphia, Magnani’s Mamma Roma
endlessly wandering through Rome in search of social betterment,
Jean-Paul Belmondo’s Michel Poiccard driving stolen cars around Paris,
and Moretti musing while riding on his vespa in the deserted streets
of Rome. These defining roles, in turn, exceed the space of the
stories they tell and transform actors into icons of “their” cities:
Magnani’s Mamma Roma in Pasolini’s film is Pina from Rossellini’s Open
City, twenty years later. Allen is New York, from film to film.
Papers are sought that explore the relationship between an actor and a
city via the character they play. Send abstracts and a CV by 1 August
via e-mail.
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gloria monti, ph.d.
assistant professor
radio-TV-film
CSUF, fullerton, CA
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"there are no facts, only interpretations."
friedrich nietzsche
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