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Dear Colleagues,
Italian Studies at Notre Dame invites faculty and advanced graduate students to apply for the second annual Rome Summer Seminar (June 11-28, 2012). This year’s theme is CineRoma: An International Summer Seminar on the Cinema and the City.
The close relationship between Rome and the cinema is well known. Like other iconic cities, Rome has served as an enthralling setting for many Italian and non-Italian films. In addition, for much of the last century, it has been the center of Italian film production and distribution. The seminar intends to explore several key strands of the complex ties that bind Rome to the cinema. The aim is to assess the ways in which film genres and traditions (comedy, the fantastic, silent and popular cinema, realism) have addressed and represented Rome. Alongside formalist, ideological and historical analysis, the seminar investigates key issues that are closely associated with the city and its depiction (and which are not exclusively the concern of the cinema): memory, gender, urbanism and tourism. Finally, the seminar considers the connection between Rome and cinematic audiences. The overarching goal of the seminar, as its subtitle suggests, is to assess the treatment of Rome within the broader theoretical and cultural debate of the representation of urban place and space in cinema. The emphasis is not so much on individual film directors’ reactions to the city, but on the ways in which the cinematic representation of Rome cuts across different periods, genres, themes and interests. The focus is thus firmly on the films, whether individually or as part of a group, whether produced in Italy or elsewhere.
The seminar is organized into ten sessions (urbanism, tourism, memory, gendered space, silent cinema, popular cinema, comedy, fantasy and reality, audiences, the landscapes of Italy). A day is dedicated to each topic; and a specialist in the particular field leads each seminar:
WEEK 1
Mariagrazia Fanchi (Milan): audiences
Natalie Fullwood (Cambridge): comedy
Christian Uva (Rome): fantasy and reality
WEEK 2
Alan O’Leary (Leeds): popular cinema
John David Rhodes (Sussex): urbanism
John Welle (Notre Dame): silent cinema
WEEK 3
Robert Gordon (Cambridge): tourism
Noa Steimatsky (Chicago): memory
In addition to the seminars, there will be three lectures relating to Rome and the cinema by Jacopo Benci (British Schoool in Rome), James Collins (Notre Dame), and Giovanni Ragone (Rome).
The deadline for applications is December 21. For more information, and to apply, please visit our website, http://italianstudies.nd.edu/.
Sincerely,
Italian Studies at Notre Dame
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