Italian Horror Cinema: an International Film Conference

The Italian Horror Cinema: an International Film Conference, organized by the University Of Bedfordshire will take place from 9th May to the 10th May 2014 at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like Cinematic / literary antecedents to Italian horror films, Studies of Italian horror cinema's political / historical contexts, Transnational / transcultural routes of influence and cultural significance, Industrial histories (eg co-production funding structures, key production companies), Studies of domestic or international distribution patterns / reception, Considerations of individual films / trends, Translation studies / cultural translation, Italian horror auteurs / directors, The on-going global legacies of Italian horror and Italian horror cinema today.