Imitate, reuse, recycle: for a new approach to the Italian filoni

Stefano Baschiera

▼2025 / 6 / 2  (Mon.)

▼18:00～19:30

▼ L-821/Central Library, Sophia University

▼Language/English

▼Registration/Admission free. No registration required.

This talk addresses traditional academic approaches to the Italian genre factory of the 1960s and 1970s, typically dominated by questions of auteurism, national cinema, and genre theory, to reflect on the role of popular cinema within a transnational context. After engaging with the ‘cinema of imitation’ and the development of the sottofiloni the talk focuses on the cinema of the period in terms of its production system and its ability to exploit cultural trends and international networks while maximising scarce resources. The result is a reflection on the concept of recycling as a key element for understanding the production of Italian popular cinema of the period and a look at the lessons in sustainability that can be applied to the contemporary production landscape. 

Stefano Baschiera is Professor in Film and Screen Industries at Queen’s University Belfast. His research on cinematic spaces, European cinema, and screen industries has been published in various edited collections and journals, including Bianco e Nero, Studies in European Cinema and The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Recently, he co-edited Italian Horror Cinema (2016), Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif (2020), World Cinema on Demand (2022).

This talk is co-hosted by ICC and the European Instiute Sophia University, organized by John Williams (Professor, DES, Sophia University).