Books by Dom Holdaway
The Walking Dead - Contagio culturale e politica postapocalittica, 2017
A study (in Italian) of the AMC series The Walking Dead, with chapters on:
1. the production of ... more A study (in Italian) of the AMC series The Walking Dead, with chapters on:
1. the production of the series
2. the political allegories in its representation of the zombie apocalypse
3. the series' fandom, digital communities and creative activity
4. the marketing, distribution and consumption of the series
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In November 2013, the University of Warwick launched a one-year Commission, chaired by Vikki Heyw... more In November 2013, the University of Warwick launched a one-year Commission, chaired by Vikki Heywood CBE, to undertake a comprehensive and holistic investigation into the future of cultural value.
A diverse group of cultural leaders, supported by academics from the University of Warwick, were invited to gather together the evidence and arguments to create a blueprint for the future of investment and engagement in our cultural lives.
The Commission’s report brings together the findings of a series of public and private meetings with artists, creative and cultural professionals, economists, business leaders and other stakeholders, backed up by targeted research.
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Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in t... more Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film.
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Papers by Dom Holdaway
Zapruder World: An International Journal for the History of Social Conflict, 2020
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This article identi es a recent trend of critically acclaimed, accessible ma a narratives, and of... more This article identi es a recent trend of critically acclaimed, accessible ma a narratives, and offers a possible interpretation of the lms as belonging to the quality sector. Following a discussion of ‘quality’ in the Italian industry, the article rst provides a historic overview of Italian ma a lms in order to contextualize the recent shift in tone and form. The second section then offers an anal- ysis of the production, distribution and performance of ten ma a lms released between 2004 and 2016 in relation to Mary Wood’s de nition of quality lmmaking. By employing a methodology that moves from cultural history to production studies, the article reveals the continued relevance and (often institutional) legitimation of ma a narratives, therefore raising further questions about the speci city of the Italian quality sector, its boundaries, and its problematic relationship with popular lm.
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Cinema di Stato (a cura di G. Manzoli e M. Cucco), 2017
This chapter (in Italian) provides a social network analysis of the main filmmakers who are respo... more This chapter (in Italian) provides a social network analysis of the main filmmakers who are responsible for making cultural interest cinema (i.e. funded by the State in Italy), in order to reveal the possible repeated collaborations that favour access to public funding.
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from Bianco e nero, 2-3 (2015)
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Italian Studies, 2015
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Il film di Gomorra, in modo anche più esplicito di questi esempi, dimostra la tensione tra le du... more Il film di Gomorra, in modo anche più esplicito di questi esempi, dimostra la tensione tra le due esetiche di impegno civile: quello realista e quello formalista/barocco. Nonostante ciò, le analisi critiche del film non sembrano in grado di registrare la complessità estetica e creativa del film, e si concentrano principalmente sul suo aspetto realistico. In quanto segue mi propongo di mettere in luce questa aporia critica legando i diversi approcci alla ricezione ufficiale del film alla sua posizione pubblica come “film politico”.
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Canonical interpretations and representations of Rome appear dependant on the category of the ‘Et... more Canonical interpretations and representations of Rome appear dependant on the category of the ‘Eternal City’. This essay poses these images as a dominant narrative that guides the ‘archive’ of the city’s images. Drawing on theoretical concepts that threaten the constitution of such an archive, this article reads queer images of Rome as disturbances that go against the ‘eternal’ archiving principle. With reference to Roman Holiday, it illustrates the close intertwining of eternality in Rome with hetero-normativity and reproductive futurity. This connection allows the reading of queer texts and images, such as Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s novel Petrolio, as what we call ‘Roman Fever’, that is, the deactivation of ‘eternality’ as the central driver of Rome’s archive.
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This paper offers a critical reflection on the historical use of the term 'crisis' in Italian fil... more This paper offers a critical reflection on the historical use of the term 'crisis' in Italian film criticism.
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This article relates the use of deep space in Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (Caprioli, 197... more This article relates the use of deep space in Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (Caprioli, 1970) to a theory of the queer spatio-temporal. Part of a special section on deep space in Italian film.
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Conferences by Dom Holdaway
Programma del convegno internazionale "Il sistema dell'impegno nel cinema italiano contemporaneo"... more Programma del convegno internazionale "Il sistema dell'impegno nel cinema italiano contemporaneo" a cura di Claudio Bisoni, Dom Holdaway e Dalila Missero, 15-16 Febbraio 2016, Dipartimento delle arti, Università di Bologna.
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Screen policies are made by national governments but always in the context of the broader interna... more Screen policies are made by national governments but always in the context of the broader international regulatory and policy landscape. This panel is part of the current research project of the French academic association CinEcoSA (cinecosa.com), which organized two conferences in Paris in 2013 and 2014 dedicated to film and television policies. In order to further explore the complex and fascinating issues that arose during these conferences, two CinEcoSA members are proposing panels for the 2016 SCMS conference. (The panel ‘‘Screen Policies: Defining and Defending National Interest’’ is submitted by Nolwenn Mingant). The present panel is dedicated to the manner in which national governments around the world have shaped their screen policies as a function of challenges at the international level. The sorts of international events that have in recent times challenged and influenced national screen policy regimes included the global financial crisis, the acceleration of the trade liberalisation agenda, and the emergence of regional policies in areas that were formerly governed by sovereign States. Such events inevitably raise issues for national screen industries which must be addressed by governments, or ignored at their peril. This panel explores the responses of specific national policy regimes to a number of recent events. It proposes four papers spanning three major regions of the world: Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Hammett-Jamart and Newman compare and contrast the policy responses of the Australian and New Zealand governments to three distinct events over the past decade, underlining the relationship between policy responses and industry outcomes. Mitric analyses the dynamics and processes of change in European screen policies in the context of the global financial crisis, with a particular focus on Serbia. Cucco and Holdaway present recent work of a cross-institutional research team, which questions the efficacy of current legislation in Italy. Zweig explores the current state of Ecuadorian cinema. The panel is constituted of a combination of early- and mid-career researchers from around the world. In proposing these two screen policy panels to SCMS, CinEcoSA seeks to advance the work of researchers from lesser represented regions of the world and thereby to enrich global academic debate about screen policy.
Chair: Julia Hammett-Jamart
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Conference Presentations by Dom Holdaway
Media Industries Conference: Current Debate and Future Directions (King's College London, 18-20 April), 2018
Over the past few decades, public film funding has become a common object of study for the academ... more Over the past few decades, public film funding has become a common object of study for the academic community, especially scholars of the media and its political economy. The importance of such studies has only increased as several governments have looked to the creative industries to encourage national economic development.
Previous scholarship has focused predominantly on two aspects of public financing: a) the specifics of legislation (which, despite some overlaps, changes from country to country); b) its efficiency in terms of box-office success and returns to the State. However, public funding and its regulation has much greater implications: it can influence the behaviour of certain players on the market (such as broadcasters, which are among the biggest film producers in Europe); it can create hierarchies and endanger fair competition; and of course it affects the very contents of the films it produces.
Such considerations are a starting point for this paper, which proposes a model for the study of national, public film funding, in order to build on previous approaches. Our proposed methodology consists of four parts:
• the analysis of public funding laws, and their market results;
• the analysis of public/private broadcasters in relation to funding regulation;
• social network analysis of the above-the-line subjects that recurrently receive State funding;
• textual analysis of funded films.
This model combines quantitative and qualitative study, and for the first time integrates (relatively) big data analysis into the study of public film funding.
The methodology has been tested in the Italian case, by a group of researchers from four universities (Bologna, Milano, Roma and Lugano), including ourselves. The paper will thus be illustrated using this example, however, our objective remains that of illustrating and promoting a means of studying public funding that could be adopted in other contexts, too.
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Journal Articles by Dom Holdaway
In this article, we propose a reading of the historical relevance of Roberto Rossellini's Roma ci... more In this article, we propose a reading of the historical relevance of Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) (Rossellini, 1945) in relation to one of the lesser-studied characters: Marina Mari (played by Maria Michi). The character of Marina has been subjected to critical negative responses centred on her narrative function, the betrayal of the Resistance movement or the 'corrupt' persona of the actress. We argue that Marina, in fact, embodies the convergence of a series of gender, genre, social and historic dynamics that have exceptional symbolic relevance for Italian cinematic and social history. We begin with an overview of the connection between Rome, Open City and the antifascist, re-foundational rhetoric that emerged after the Second World War, which 'preserved' Italian national identity by assigning culpability to the Germans alone. Following this, through a careful re-reading of her narrative function and visual representation, we demonstrate the radicalness of Marina's sexual and social identity.
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Main Papers by Dom Holdaway
Comunicazioni Sociali (CS Journal), Dec 31, 2018
This article begins with the observation that, in the era of media convergence and abundance, the... more This article begins with the observation that, in the era of media convergence and abundance, the consumption of audiovisual media occurs in such a fragmentary and 'informal' way that to speak simply of 'distribution' is no longer sufficient. Though it remains relevant-as demonstrated by the continued centrality of the box office-this term implies a vertical, closed economic process which overshadows other viewing processes (institutional and non-). The article thus proposes adopting the term 'circulation', which instead would allow scholars to map out the movement of audiovisual products in various (geographic, technological) contexts, in order then to question cinema's cultural impact in a broader and more exhaustive way. Following a theoretical reflection on circulation and the conception of national cinema, the article reflects on the case of Italy. The discussion then presents the results of a quantitative analysis of box-office data-which is justified as a fundamental starting point for reflections on circulation. The second and third parts illustrates the shortcomings of Italian cinema in particular from a comparative perspective, identifying the potential successful circulation models, and national cinemas within the European Union. The fourth examines the European markets where Italian cinema finds the most significant audiences, thus signalling its various strategic circulation patterns.
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Edited Books and Special Issues by Dom Holdaway
«VIEW - Journal of European Television History and Culture», Volume 9, Issue 17, 2020
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1. the production of the series
2. the political allegories in its representation of the zombie apocalypse
3. the series' fandom, digital communities and creative activity
4. the marketing, distribution and consumption of the series
A diverse group of cultural leaders, supported by academics from the University of Warwick, were invited to gather together the evidence and arguments to create a blueprint for the future of investment and engagement in our cultural lives.
The Commission’s report brings together the findings of a series of public and private meetings with artists, creative and cultural professionals, economists, business leaders and other stakeholders, backed up by targeted research.
Papers by Dom Holdaway
https://zapruderworld.org/volume-6/the-neglected-spaces-of-feminism-and-queer-in-contemporary-italian-political-cinema/
Conferences by Dom Holdaway
Chair: Julia Hammett-Jamart
Conference Presentations by Dom Holdaway
Previous scholarship has focused predominantly on two aspects of public financing: a) the specifics of legislation (which, despite some overlaps, changes from country to country); b) its efficiency in terms of box-office success and returns to the State. However, public funding and its regulation has much greater implications: it can influence the behaviour of certain players on the market (such as broadcasters, which are among the biggest film producers in Europe); it can create hierarchies and endanger fair competition; and of course it affects the very contents of the films it produces.
Such considerations are a starting point for this paper, which proposes a model for the study of national, public film funding, in order to build on previous approaches. Our proposed methodology consists of four parts:
• the analysis of public funding laws, and their market results;
• the analysis of public/private broadcasters in relation to funding regulation;
• social network analysis of the above-the-line subjects that recurrently receive State funding;
• textual analysis of funded films.
This model combines quantitative and qualitative study, and for the first time integrates (relatively) big data analysis into the study of public film funding.
The methodology has been tested in the Italian case, by a group of researchers from four universities (Bologna, Milano, Roma and Lugano), including ourselves. The paper will thus be illustrated using this example, however, our objective remains that of illustrating and promoting a means of studying public funding that could be adopted in other contexts, too.
Journal Articles by Dom Holdaway
Main Papers by Dom Holdaway
Edited Books and Special Issues by Dom Holdaway
1. the production of the series
2. the political allegories in its representation of the zombie apocalypse
3. the series' fandom, digital communities and creative activity
4. the marketing, distribution and consumption of the series
A diverse group of cultural leaders, supported by academics from the University of Warwick, were invited to gather together the evidence and arguments to create a blueprint for the future of investment and engagement in our cultural lives.
The Commission’s report brings together the findings of a series of public and private meetings with artists, creative and cultural professionals, economists, business leaders and other stakeholders, backed up by targeted research.
https://zapruderworld.org/volume-6/the-neglected-spaces-of-feminism-and-queer-in-contemporary-italian-political-cinema/
Chair: Julia Hammett-Jamart
Previous scholarship has focused predominantly on two aspects of public financing: a) the specifics of legislation (which, despite some overlaps, changes from country to country); b) its efficiency in terms of box-office success and returns to the State. However, public funding and its regulation has much greater implications: it can influence the behaviour of certain players on the market (such as broadcasters, which are among the biggest film producers in Europe); it can create hierarchies and endanger fair competition; and of course it affects the very contents of the films it produces.
Such considerations are a starting point for this paper, which proposes a model for the study of national, public film funding, in order to build on previous approaches. Our proposed methodology consists of four parts:
• the analysis of public funding laws, and their market results;
• the analysis of public/private broadcasters in relation to funding regulation;
• social network analysis of the above-the-line subjects that recurrently receive State funding;
• textual analysis of funded films.
This model combines quantitative and qualitative study, and for the first time integrates (relatively) big data analysis into the study of public film funding.
The methodology has been tested in the Italian case, by a group of researchers from four universities (Bologna, Milano, Roma and Lugano), including ourselves. The paper will thus be illustrated using this example, however, our objective remains that of illustrating and promoting a means of studying public funding that could be adopted in other contexts, too.