From R.Johnson at leeds.ac.uk Wed Mar 19 17:57:28 2025 From: R.Johnson at leeds.ac.uk (Rachel Johnson) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:57:28 +0000 Subject: [Filmfestivalresearch] A week to go! Book launch: Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema. Wednesday 26 March, 4:30-6pm Message-ID: *with apologies for cross posting* Dear all This is a friendly reminder of/ re-invitation to the launch of my book, Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema next week. The launch will be online and in person, featuring an introduction from Prof Alan O'Leary (Aarhus University), a book presentation from me (Rachel Johnson, University of Leeds), and a discussion with Profs Marijke de Valck (Utrecht University) and Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol). There will also be a Q&A and, for those joining us in person, a drinks reception. Launch: Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema Dr Rachel Johnson (University of Leeds) When: 4:30pm - 6pm* (UK time), Wednesday 26 March 2025 Where: Online and in-person For those joining in person, the wine reception will take place from 6pm. Please register for the event to receive updates and instructions on how to join. Attendees will also receive a 20% discount code to purchase the book from AUP. In the meantime, you can download a free copy of the introduction from Rachel's Academia.edu page. [cid:d5466ee8-898e-4c17-b9fb-7d80bb52afe7] About the book: Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema is the first systematic study of the role ideology plays in film festivals? construction of dominant ideas about art cinema. Film festivals are considered the driving force of the film industry outside Hollywood, disseminating ideals of cinematic art and humanist politics. However, the question of what drives them remains highly contentious. In a rare consideration of the European competitive film festival circuit as a whole, this book analyses the shared economic, geopolitical and cultural histories that characterise so-called ?European A festivals?. It offers, too, the first extensive analysis of such festivals? role in the canonisation of select Italian films, from Rome, Open City to The Great Beauty and Gomorrah. The book proposes a new approach to ideology critique, one that enables detailed examination of how film festivals construct ideas about not only contemporary art cinema, but assumptions about gender, race, colonialism and capitalism. This event is hosted by the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. If you have any questions or accessibility requirements, please get in touch. We hope to see you there. Rachel -- Dr R Johnson FHEA pronouns: she/her/hers; them/they/theirs | #MyNameIs: Rachel, pronounced Rey-ch-eh-l. (hear my name). Lecturer in Film Studies | School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT (UK) Co-editor of The Italianist: Film Issue. Co-convenor of the Film Festival Research Network research seminar series. Submit your proposal for a seminar. -- Read my and colleagues' work in these open access edited collections: Moving beyond (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals (2025) Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World (2024) Pandemic culture (2024) Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook (2022) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 482605 bytes Desc: image.png URL: