1.30-6.00 pm, Tuesday 24 January 2012, University College Cork
A workshop funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Organiser: Laura Rascaroli, Italian and Film Studies, UCC
The cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007) embodies, more than that of any other director, the substance of European art cinema. His intensely stylised, stylish, demanding and gratifying films continue to spark controversy and debate – and inspire intense allegiance. On the centenary of Antonioni's birth, this workshop intends to reassess Antonioni's remarkable contribution and continued centrality to world cinema; to place his work in an expanded theoretical field; and to develop and promote scholarly debate within a truly interdisciplinary humanities framework.
The workshop will include presentations on various aspects of the work of Michelangelo Antonioni and will involve respondents from several disciplines. Confirmed speakers: Paolo Bartoloni (Italian, NUIG), Matilde Nardelli (Film Studies, UCL), Laura Rascaroli (Italian/Film Studies, UCC), John David Rhodes (English, Sussex) and Karl Schoonover (Film and Television, Warwick). Respondents: Stefano Baschiera (Film Studies, QUB), Gary A. Boyd (Architecture, UCC), Patrick Crowley (French, UCC), Sabine Kriebel (History of Art, UCC), Patrick O'Donovan (French, UCC). Some of the topics that will be discussed are: medium specificity; film and conceptual photography; intermediality; self-representation and self-portraiture; thing theory; the theory of waste; and the theory of style.
The workshop is part of a research project that is in receipt of funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences ("New Ideas" Scheme).
The workshop will be followed at 6.00 pm by the launch of the volume: Antonioni: Centenary Essays. Edited by Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan 2011)
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