Keynote speaker:
Professor Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University)

Taking place:

Oxford Brookes University

Headington Hill Hall

2nd and 3rd September 2011

There has been a renewed interest in how film and religion interconnect and how religious characters and rituals have been popular subject matters of movies. Books such as S. Brent Plate’s Representing religion in world cinema: filmmaking, mythmaking, culture making (2003), Colleen McDannell’s Catholics in the movies (2008) and Pamela Grace’s The religious film: Christianity and the hagiopic (2009) have provided an insight into the representation of religious people, places and symbols in world cinema.

However, over the last hundred years, Catholic organizations around the world have tried to assess, manipulate, control and intervene in the development of cinema. This inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine and explore issues of power in the relationship between the film industry and an external institution such as the Roman Catholic Church. In particular the conference is interested in investigating the various contexts of production, distribution, exhibition, reception, classification, censorship, which have been influenced by an organization that has nothing to do with the commercial enterprise called cinema.

Speakers

• Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University)
• Guido Convents (SIGNIS)
• Daniel Cutrara (Arizona State University)
• Elena Dagrada (Università di Milano)
• Maria Elena de las Carreras (California State University)
• Karel Dibbets (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
• Silvia Dibeltuto (Trinity College, Dublin)
• Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University)
• Maria Grazia Fanchi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
• Inês Gil (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias de Lisboa)
• Jessamy Harvey (Birbeck, London)
• Paul Lesch (University of Luxembourg)
• Mélisande Leventopoulos (Université de Paris 8)
• Massimo Locatelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
• Ilaria Mainardi (independent scholar)
• Peter Malone (SIGNIS)
• Maria Francesca Piredda (Università di Bologna)
• Kevin Rockett (Trinity College, Dublin)
• Federico Ruozzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
• Maureen Sabine (University of Hong Kong)
• Benjamin Sampson (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Mari-An C. Santos (Independent Scholar)
• Gwenn Scheppler (Université de Montréal)
• Tomaso Subini (Università di Milano)
• Frank P. Tomasulo (City College of New York, CUNY)
• Deborah Toschi (Università di Pavia)
• Daniela Treveri Gennari (Oxford Brookes University)
• Antonio Valente (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
• Thunnis van Oort (Utrecht University)

Contact:

Daniela Treveri Gennari

Film Studies, Dept of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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Conference/Event Programme is available here