italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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Women and the Mass Media in 20th Century Italy: Press, cinema,
television, radio and the recording industry
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
20-21 October 2006
Italy has acquired in recent years a reputation for media sexism. Very
few women have ever occupied any managerial or editorial positions
within the mass media, while the representation of women on television
is often reduced to the cliché of the /velina/.
The aim of this conference is to survey and analyse the presence of
women in all Italian media over the whole course of the twentieth
century. It is hoped that in this way it will be possible to expose
patterns and mechanisms of discrimination, but also to explore how the
media have offered women opportunities and assisted innovations in the
established gender order of Italian society. The call for papers is
directed at scholars working on various aspects of the Italian mass
media, women’s studies, social history, sociology and politics.
Papers of 20 minutes in English or Italian are invited which consider
specific roles (journalist, presenter, actress, singer, agony aunt etc.)
or particular cases of women who have performed those roles. For
example, contributions would be welcome on journalists such as Matilde
Serao, Paola Masino, Margherita Sarfatti, Alba de Céspedes, Brunella
Gasperini, Camilla Cederna, Oriana Fallaci and Rossana Rossanda; film
actresses including Francesca Bertini, Alida Valli, Monica Vitti,
Margherita Buy; television performers like Raffaella Carrà and Mara
Venier, film directors and screen writers such as Suso Cecchi d’Amico,
Lina Wertmuller and Francesca Archibugi, and musical performers
including the Trio Lescano, Mina and Patty Pravo.
Contributions are also welcome on a range of other topics including
women’s magazines, women in advertising, the image of women in specific
publications, the feminist media critiques, the relationship between
female politicians and the media, the representation of crime involving
women, the depiction of figures such as the opera star, the prostitute
and the businesswoman, female cartoon heroines.
Keynote speakers will include Milly Buonanno and Michela De Giorgio.
Offers of papers should contain the following: a title, a one paragraph
outline, name, institution and status. They should be sent by 28
February 2006 to the conference organisers, Penny Morris
([log in to unmask]) and Stephen Gundle ([log in to unmask]).
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