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The film festival Transito. Elvira Notari – Cinema of Passage will take place from December 14th–17th. Curated by Karola Gramann and Heide Schlüpmann, organized by the Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V. Festival location: Pupille – Kino in der Uni. More information on kinothek­asta­nielsen.de/notari.html.

In cooperation with the Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V. and ZDF/ARTE, a workshop with the musicians and composers involved in the live music accompaniment during the film festival will be offered for students and doctoral candidates. The approaches and working methods used in the new compositions and live performances for Elvira Notari’s films will be discussed by guests Lucilla Galeazzi, Dolores Melodia, Enrico Melozzi, Maud Nelissen, Federico Odling, Michele Signore, Lorenzo Riessler and Michael Riesslerer with Nina Goslar (ZDF/ARTE) and Simona Frasca as hosts.

The workshop will take place on December 16th from 9.00 till 11.30 at the Pupille e.V. – Kino in der Uni and is supported by the hessische Film­ und Medienakademie (hFMA). Registration: info@elviranotarisymposium.de

Consolato Generale d‘ItaliaFrancoforte sul Meno

The symposium is organized by the Institut für Theater­, Film­ und Medien­wissenschaft of Goethe­ Universität Frankfurt am Main (Prof. Sonia Campanini). It is being made possible through the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Hessische Film­ und Medien akademie (hFMA), the Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe­Universität and under the patronage of the Italian Consulate General Frankfurt.

Organized by: Sonia Campanini, Andrea Haller, Bianka­Isabell Scharmann and Michelle Rafaela Kamolz

In cooperation with: Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V., ZDF/ARTE, Pupille e.V. – Kino in der Uni

Partners: Philipps­Universität Marburg, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main

Design: Mathias Bär, Karin Rekowski

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Sunday, 17 December (Eisenhower­Saal IG 1.314)

16:00 – 18:00 Registration

18:15 – 20:00 O p e n i n g a n d We l c o m e

Giuliana Muscio (Padua) Elvira Notari within a Re­contextualization of “Neapolitan” Cinema

20:00 – 22:00 Reception

Monday, 18 December (Filmraum IG 7.312)

09:15 – 12:45 Mediterranee: Women and F i lm P ioneer ing

Chair: Vinzenz Hediger ( Frankfurt/Main)

Rossella Catanese (Florence) Chiarina la modista:

the Southern Woman between Fashion and Film

Giovanna Callegari (Naples) Upset Bodies:

Elvira Notari and Gender Representation in Women’s Cinema

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

Anna Masecchia ( Naples)

Leda Gys in Naples, Between Tradition and Modernity

Gina Annunziata

( Naples) Women Pioneers of

Silent Cinema in North Africa

12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break (Room IG 1.418)

Tuesday, 19 December(Filmraum IG 7.312)

09:15 – 12:45 Naples: A Cinematographic Topography

Chair: Marc Ries (Offenbach/Main)

Lucia Di Girolamo (Naples)

Parthenope’s Memory: For a New Mythopoetics of Urban Space

Rembert Hüser (Frankfurt/Main)

Chicken in Paper Bins. Frankfurt Goes Naples

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

Martin Loiperdinger (Trier)

Iconographies of Naples and its Inhabitants

Angela Maria Fornaro (Naples)

Woman and the City in Elvira Notari’s Cinema

12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break (Room IG 1.418)

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14:15 – 17:45 Neapol i tan Popular Cul ture In and Through Early Cinema

Chair: Yvonne Zimmermann (Marburg)

Sonia Campanini (Frankfurt/Main)

Scene sulle canzoni: Neapolitan Songs in Elvira Notari’s Sceneggiata Films

Simona Frasca ( Naples)

Elvira and Friends: Music and Migration from a Female Perspective

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break

Katharine Mitchell (Glasgow)

Matilde Serao’s Naples on Page and Screen

Elisa Uffreduzzi ( Florence)

Tarantella in Silent Cinema: Women, Regional Variants and Dance Styles

Registration: info@elviranotarisymposium.de

Conference Location:Goethe­Universität Frankfurt am MainInstitut für Theater­, Film­ und MedienwissenschaftIG Farben­HausNorbert­Wollheim­Platz 160323 Frankfurt am Main

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Interdisciplinary Symposium

Echoes of Parthenope Elvira Notari’s Cinema and Neapolitan Popular Culture

14:15 – 17:45 Trans i to: A Cinema of Passages

Chair: Kalani Michell (Frankfurt/Main)

Heide Schlüpmann (Frankfurt/Main)

Cinematic Transit: Possibilities of the Silent Screen

Andrea Mariani (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 ( Washington, D.C.)

The Sounds of Images and Songs: Rethinking Elvira Notari’s Cinema of the 1920s

Karianne Fiorini (Bologna)

Home Movies from the Italian­American Com­munity: the Lombardi Family, a Case Study

18:00 – 18:30 Comments and Closing Discussion