Austin Any SCMS members who'd be interested in a "Transnational Cinemas" Scholarly Interest Group, let me know. I need signatories.
Austin started following the work of Shaun Kimber, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth Media School.
Austin started following the work of Adrian Horrocks, Anglia Ruskin University, Communication, Film and Media.
Austin i'm giving a guest lecture on Marxist Spaghetti Westerns at the University of Tennessee in two weeks: http://bit.ly/HeChPv
Faculty Member, Research Institute for Media, Art and Design (RIMAD)
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My forthcoming book ("Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema") analyses militant appropriations of the Italian, or "Spaghetti", Western which occurred around the time of the 1968 protest movements. I show how the codes of the Hollywood Western were adapted and re-inscribed with radically oppositional doctrine, and relate these films' advocacy of insurgent violence to the eventual outbreak of terrorism in 1970s Italy.
My most recent research extends my analysis of critiques dealing with state corruption, ideology and political violence within the Western all’italiana to incorporate an examination of the poliziesco filone of the 1970s. I am also investigating the discrepancies between intended political inscriptions in popular Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, and its tangible patterns of reception.
I write a blog around my research interests, which can be found at http://www.austinfisher.me.uk. You can also follow me on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/austinjfisher
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