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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Da 'Sodoma' a 'Gomorra': Framing Crisis and Rebirth in Italian Cinema 22-24 January, 2010 Conference on Italian Screen Studies Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Peter Bondanella & Gian Piero Brunetta. Confirmed Roundtable Panel: Guido Bonsaver, Robert Gordon, Alan O’Leary & Catherine O’Rawe. Recently confirmed an electronic link with Cinemonitor: Osservatorio Cinema, Rome 'La Sapienza' http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/italian/forthcoming/2010conference Dear colleagues in Italian, I am inviting 2 further papers for a panel on the cinema of Nanni Moretti. Please mote your interest ([log in to unmask]) and send a title and an abstract of 250 words by 15 September 2009. Panel Proposal Description follows the message. best regards Rossella Riccobono PANEL PROPOSAL Memory and Identity. The political and Existential Cinema of Nanni Moretti Nanni Moretti's cinema is highly personal and eccentric in the way the director presents it to his public. Some have also called Moretti's cinema narcissistic. The centre position of director/actor N. Moretti in his films is due not only to the fact that he started to make cinema as an autarchic director outside the canonical system due to his political stance that he has maintained throughout his career and life to date, but also because he uses his own persona as a metaphorical vehicle for his art. This session on Nanni Moretti's cinema aims at developing reflective awareness and analytical skills in relation to 'problems' (aspects, dimensions) of Italian but also European identity in connection with the cinema of Moretti in the last thirty years. This session's aim is to explore concepts and mechanisms involved in the formation/loss of historical collective identity as such through Moretti's cinema. Particular topics may include: concepts of culture and identity; identity and language; collective memory; icons of identity; historiography and myth; ideology and identity; political institutions and national identity; Self and Other. Abstracts on any of the above topics are welcome, either focussing on Moretti's cinema, or on comparative analysis of Moretti and other directors. Dr Rossella Riccobono Head of Italian University of St Andrews School of Modern Languages Buchanan Building Union Street St Andrews KY16 9PH Scotland, U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------ University of St Andrews Webmail: https://webmail.st-andrews.ac.uk ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html