2024 Program

2024 COURSES AND ACTIVITIES

Lectures and seminars

This intensive four-day program is an immersive experience that offers a blend of lectures, scholarly conversations with an international faculty, meetings with the professionals of the audiovisual and cultural industry, and visits to local institutions.

• Opening Remarks
  Fabio Pollice (Università del Salento)

• Course Presentation. How to Study the Mediated Italy
  Luca Barra (Università di Bologna)
• A Girls’-Eye View: Italian Teen Television and Cinema Through the Lens of Italian Female Adolescence
  Romana Andò (Sapienza Università di Roma)

• Go West, Go East, Go Wherever Money Calls You. The International Presence of Italian Cinema (and Film Culture) Over Nine Decades
  Paolo Noto (Università di Bologna)

• Financing the Audiovisual Products
  Mario La Torre  (Sapienza Università di Roma)

• The Over-Production of Films in Italy: Industry, Policy, Audience
  Marco Cucco (Università di Bologna)

• Between Gastronationalism and Glocalization: The Problematic Representation of Italian Food Culture on Television
  Elisa Farinacci (Università di Bologna)

• Italian Drama in Global Context
  Giancarlo Lombardi (CUNY, College of Staten Island)

• Space, Place, Environment and Landscape in Apulian Cinema
  Luca Bandirali (Università del Salento)

• The First Italian Female Auteurs: The Case of Matilde Serao, Eleanora Duse, and Francesca Bertini
  Kate Mitchell (Strathclyde Univeristy)

• Paradigms of Kidnapping in Marco Bellocchio’s Rapito (2023)
  Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Dickinson College)

• Mediating Migration Through Object and Image
  Eleanor Paynter (Brown University)

• Gender (Im)balance in Contemporary TV Series Production
  Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna)

• #CastingStardom: Contemporary Italian Serial Television and Gendered Labour
  Dana Renga (The Ohio State University)

• Musica, Maestro! On La Compagnia del Cigno’s Creative and Actorial Laboratory
  Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna)
• The English Sacralization of Salento. From Unknown Peninsular in the Eighties to the New Chiantishire of the Nineties
  David Katan (Università del Salento)

Guided tours, special events, and social activities

• a welcome aperitivo;
• guided tour: Aragonese Castel;
• art and Culture promenade with Manuela De Giorgi;
• daily book launches;
• a talk with movie director and screenwriter Valentina Castelli on her recent works.

Student presentations

A full schedule of the poster presentations planned for the 2024 edition is now available as a downloadable document.