Bianka-Isabell Scharmann, Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Sunday, 17 December 2017
18:15 Opening and Welcome
Giuliana Muscio (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Elvira Notari Within a Re-contextualization of “Neapolitan” Cinema
20:00 Reception
Monday, 18 December 2017
09:15 – 12:45 Mediterranee: Women and Film Pioneering
Chair: Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Rossella Catanese (Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza)
Chiarina la modista: the Southern Woman Between Fashion and Film
Giovanna Callegari (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
Upset Bodies: Elvira Notari and Gender Representation in Women’s Cinema
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Anna Masecchia (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
Leda Gys in Naples, Between Tradition and Modernity
Gina Annunziata (Università degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale)
Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema in North Africa
12:45 Lunch Break
14:15 – 17:45 Neapolitan Popular Culture In and Through Early Cinema
Chair: Yvonne Zimmermann (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Sonia Campanini (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Scene sulle canzoni: Neapolitan Songs in Elvira Notari’s Sceneggiata Films
Simona Frasca (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
Elvira and Friends: Music and Migration from a Female Perspective
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Katharine Mitchell (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)
Matilde Serao’s Naples on Page and Screen
Elisa Uffreduzzi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Tarantella in Silent Cinema: Women, Regional Variants and Dance Styles
Tuesday, 19 December 2017
09:15 – 12:45 Naples: A Cinematographic Topography
Chair: Marc Ries (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main)
Lucia Di Girolamo (Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli)
Parthenope’s Memory: For a New Mythopoetics of Urban Space
Rembert Hüser (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Chicken in Paper Bins. Frankfurt Goes Naples
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Martin Loiperdinger (Universität Trier)
Iconographies of Naples and its Inhabitants
Angela Maria Fornaro (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II)
Woman and the City in Elvira Notari’s Cinema
12:45 Lunch Break
14:15 – 17:45 Transito: A Cinema of Passages
Chair: Kalani Michell (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Heide Schlüpmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V.)
Cinematic Transit: Possibilities of the Silent Screen
Andrea Mariani (Università degli Studi di Udine)
A Passage to Media. The Ghostly Shadow of Cinema and the Media Cosmos of an Explorer
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
Kim Tomadjoglou (Independent Audiovisual Curator and Film Scholar)
The Sounds of Images and Songs: Rethinking Elvira Notari’s Cinema of the 1920s
Karianne Fiorini (Independent Film Archivist and Curator)
Home Movies from the Italian-American Community: the Lombardi Family, a Case Study
18:00 – 18:30 Comments and Closing Discussion