CFP - Workshop "A New Italian Political Cinema?" and Conference "Contemporary Italy on Screen" 29-30 April 2011, Adelaide, South Australia



Workshop: A New Italian Political Cinema? & Conference: Contemporary Italy on Screen



*Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 29-30 April 2011*



Key-note speakers Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo will be speaking on



Women at Work:Issues of Job (In)security in Contemporary Italian Film



Films discussed include Francesca Comencini's Mi piace lavorare-Mobbing

[Mobbing] (2003), Wilma Labate's Signorina Effe [Miss F] (2007),

Ada Negri's Riprendimi [Good Morning, Heartache] (2008) and the

documentaries Silvia Ferreri's Uno virgola due [One Point Two] (2005)

and Tania Pedroni's Invisibili [Invisible] (2002). All of these films assume

a gendered perspective that draws attention to the veiled prejudices

against women in the workplace, a social space where they continue to

come up against a long tradition that renders motherhood and work

in the public sphere incompatible.



The workshop and conference will examine the nature of contemporary

Italian cinema (early 1990s to present day), with a view to:



1) analysing the nature of its politicization (or lack thereof);

2) establishing patterns within filmic representations of socioeconomic

and political issues in Italy; and

3) identifying the factors affecting the attempts of filmmakers to

explore societal problems in their work.



These events are part of a wider international project supported by an

award made by the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Research

Networking Scheme (www.ahrc.ac.uk<https://red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=ccfa7159f3874af1a0dbafdc55310090&URL=http://www.ahrc.ac.uk>).  Research will be disseminated via

published volumes of working papers, a collection of essays, and a

monograph.



For further information, please see:

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Kind regards,



Luciana

Luciana d'Arcangeli BA, MHRM, PhD, FHEA, FCIL, MITI
Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian
School of Humanities (room 208), Flinders University
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Adelaide 5001 Australia
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