LiFE 2020 Conference – Abstracts

Basilicata in Transformation: Through the Italian Post-War Documentary
Mariangela Palmieri (University of Salerno, Italy)

Basilicata Inside and Outside: The Lucanian Landscape and the Interior/Exterior Relation in Non-Fiction Cinema
Massimiliano Gaudiosi (Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples , Italy)

Ch4 Lucania. ENI in Basilicata, Landscape and Industrial Labor
Luca Peretti (The Ohio State University, USA)

Dismantling the Wasteocene. Toxic Narratives vs Commoning Practices at the Peripheries of Capitalist Modernity
Marco Armiero (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

Divine and Diabolical Lucania Between the Fifties and Sixties. From De Martino to Di Gianni and Rondi
Giuseppe Mattia (University of Florence, Italy)

Dwelling in the ‘South’. On Land, Permaculture and Cinema
Michal Krawczyk (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)

Heroes of the Cityscape: Rome in Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot
Angelo Iermano (University of Basilicata, Italy)

How to Propose an Environmental Awareness for the Contemporary Media Landscape: Ecology, Participation, Resistance
Steven Stergar (University of Udine, Italy)

Isabella di Morra’s «valle inferna» Between Myth and Reality. About the Movie Sexum superando
Aurora Zaccagnino (University of Basilicata, Italy)

Itinerant Ecocriticism in Basilicata and Italian Cinema on Foot
Elena Past (Wayne State University, USA)

Landscape, Aesthetics, Complexity. A Research Hypothesis
Chiara Simonigh (University of Torino, Italy)

Lucania, Land of Fairy Tales and FilmsFrom Basile’s Lo Cunto de li Cunti to Roccati’s Lucania. Land, Blood and Magic
Alberto Baracco (University of Basilicata, Italy)

Memory for Rocco Mazzola
Tiziana Mazzola (School “U. Di Pasca”, Italy)

Michelangelo Frammartino’s Alberi. The Arboreal Rite of a Land Between Anthropological Myth and Ecocritical Tale
Chiara Dionisi (Roma Tre University, Italy)

Oil Documentaries: A Few Notes on Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (Pannone, 2004) and Nero d’Italia (Castellano, 2013)
Paolo Chirumbolo (Louisiana State University, USA)

On the Relationship Between Human Being and World, at the Time of Capitalism
Alessia Araneo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Luchino Visconti’s Lucania Between Real and Imaginary
Maria Teresa Imbriani (University of Basilicata, Italy)

“The Earth Speaks to All of Us”: Queer Ecology in Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky
Cynthia Schulz (Kingston University, London, UK)

The Films of Nicola Ragone Between Art, Ecology and Marginality
Lucrezia Naglieri (Independent researcher, Italy)

Towards South: For a New Ecology of the Gaze
Manuela Gieri (University of Basilicata, Italy)