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I am deeply honoured to have been invited to speak at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in April of this year. My guest lecture to the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, entitled “Go West, Comrade! Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western”, will take place on Monday 16th April. The abstract is below:
A heavily-armed battalion of communist students, led … Continue reading Go West, Comrade… to Tennessee! I’ll be addressing the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, which runs from March 21st-25th at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. My paper is entitled “Italian Americanisms: Popular Italian Cinema in the Light of the Transnational”, and the abstract is as follows: Defining the “popular” cinematic product has always been a fraught … Continue reading Italian Americanisms @ SCMS I’ll be presenting a paper to the annual conference of the UK’s Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) at the University of Bedfordshire in January. My paper is entitled ‘Il cinema all’americana? Defining the Transnational “Popular”‘. It seeks to recalibrate the discourse surrounding popular Italian cinema by suggesting that, in the socio-cultural climate of 1960s Italy’s rapid transition … Continue reading “Il cinema all’americana” @ MeCCSA I shall be addressing the Irish Film Institute in Dublin before and after the screening of Damiano Damiani’s A Bullet for the General / Quién sabe?, on Saturday August 27th 2011. The film is being shown as part of the IFI’s “Meanwhile, Back at the Revolution…” season, and I will be both introducing it and having a post-screening discussion … Continue reading Quién sabe? @ the Irish Film Institute I have written a short taster article for my forthcoming book, Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. The article addresses the confused political agenda at the heart of Sergio Sollima’s Faccia a faccia (1967), and is up on the IB Tauris website, should you be interested. Read it here: Radical Frontiers – Faccia a faccia
Continue reading Radical Frontiers Taster Article Online Below are my lecture notes (hastily tidied up into more-or-less grammatical sentences for the benefit of the reader) and slides from a talk I have just this morning given at the international conference Film and Media 2011, at the Institute of Education, London. This is very much work in progress, so it’s rough around the edges; nor do I claim … Continue reading My “Machete” paper in full… I shall be giving a talk examining Giulio Petroni’s Tepepa (1969) as a site of contested cultural memory to the 2011 Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, at the University of St. Andrews (6-9 July). The abstract is below.
La resistenza popolare: Transcultural Memory in Giulio Petroni’s Tepepa That memories of the partisan movement played an important role in the … Continue reading “La resistenza popolare” @ SIS, St Andrews I shall be giving a talk on the cult cachet of Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) to the fifth annual “Cine Excess” conference in May 2011, and Django himself will be in attendance! Guests of honour and veritable giants of cult Italian cinema Franco Nero and Ruggero Deodato will be the main attractions amidst leading cult film scholars and critics. The … Continue reading “A Cult Called Django” @ Cine Excess I shall be addressing the inaugural annual London Film and Media conference – Film and Media 2011 – in July, giving a talk about Robert Rodriguez’s latest film Machete (2010). The abstract is below, and I shall post more details forthwith.
Spaghetti Lefties: Postmodern Politics in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete The confrontational political tone of Robert Rodriguez’s latest Tex-Mex gore-fest Machete… Continue reading Spaghetti Lefties: Postmodern Politics in Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” – Film and Media 2011 My latest article, ‘Go West, Comrade: Unearthing Politics in the Spaghetti Western’, has been published on the world’s foremost Euro Western fan site: the Spaghetti Western Database. I suggest therein that the political significance of the leftist Spaghettis that emerged in and around the era of protest (1966-1970) lies in their propensity towards ideological over-simplification, which directly reflects an equivalent outlook … Continue reading Go West, Comrade… on the Spaghetti Western Database! I’m conducting a very brief, but hopefully wide-ranging, survey about the viewing patterns of Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966). If you have seen this film at any point in your life, I would be eternally grateful if you would send me the following information by leaving a comment at the bottom of this page (if you’d rather the info not be … Continue reading Django Survey Though I had rather forgotten the fact, my Masters dissertation – “Sergio Leone and the Western Myth: Reading the Ritual” – is online for all to peruse. I wrote it almost ten years ago and much of it makes me cringe these days (I very much hope that my writing has improved since then!), but in the interests of open … Continue reading “Sergio Leone and the Western Myth” My article, “Out West, Down South: Gazing at America in Reverse Shot through Damiano Damiani’s Quien sabe?” (The Italianist, (30:2) 2010) is now available for all to read and download free of charge, should you so wish. You can download the article in pdf format here, or just read it here:
Continue reading “Out West, Down South” – Open Access My latest article, on the cinematographic nuances of Damiano Damiani’s political Italian Western Quien sabe? (1966), appears in this summer’s edition of The Italianist. This publication has become established as one of the leading international journals of Italian Studies. The annual Film Issue provides an outlet for research into an aspect of the discipline that has increasingly occupied scholars … Continue reading “Out West, Down South” in The Italianist. |
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