| Abstrakt: |
This paper aims to reconstruct the reception processes of Italian contemporary cinema in the United States, with specific reference to auteur cinema. Taking as a starting point a research carried out within the framework of the PRIN 2015 on the international circulation of Italian audiovisual media, the films of Luca Guadagnino and Paolo Sorrentino will be used as case studies. In the decade 2007-2017, in fact, they represent the Italian authors that have circulated the most in the North American context. After a historical survey of the reception of Italian cinema in the United States from the post-World War II period to the 2000s, the distribution and box office data of I Am Love (2009, Luca Guadagnino), The Great Beauty (2013, Paolo Sorrentino), Youth (2015, Paolo Sorrentino), and A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) will be briefly analyzed. Then, the critical U.S. reception of these films will be explored. The idea behind this essay is that, over the past two decades, Italian cinema has been affected by a kind of "auteur syndrome": that is, a difficulty in coming up with films that are exportable but, at the same time, adaptable to a market where the circulation spaces for auteur cinema have been strongly reduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
