Publications

Elena Pollacchi (PhD, Cam)
Appendix (updated 22.11.2015)
COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed articles
Pollacchi E. (2014) ‘Wang Bing’s Shared Spaces of Labor’, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
(vol. 2. Special issue ‘Film, Labor, and Migration’ edited by Saer Ba and Immanuel Ness. Wiley
Blackwell, Wiley Periodicals Inc.), 17:1 [March 2014], pp. 31-42 [doi: 10.1111/wusa.12092].
⎯ (2014) ‘Bodies and Spaces: the Legacy of Italian Cinema in Contemporary Chinese Filmmaking’,
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2:1, pp. 7-21 [doi: 10.1386/jicms.2.1.7_1]
⎯ (2014) ‘Film Festival and Imperialism/Anti-Imperialism: East Asia’ in, S. Ba and I. Ness (eds), The
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming, by
invitation).
⎯ (2014) ‘Cinema and Imperialism/Anti-Imperialism: East Asia’ in, S. Ba and I.Ness (eds), The
Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming, by
invitation).
⎯ (2012), ‘Wang Bing’s The Ditch: Spaces of history between documentary and fiction’, Journal of Chinese
Cinemas 6: 2, pp. 189–202 [doi: 10.1386/jcc.6.2.189_1. July 2012].
⎯ (2012) ‘Donne manager nell’industria cinematografica contemporanea’ (Female managers in the
contemporary film industry) in A. Aresu, L. De Giorgi (Special Issue Mondo Cinese: ‘Cina. Femminile,
plurale’/China, Female, Plural), in Mondo Cinese, vol. 146, pp. 65-75 [ISBN 9788895399669] [ISSN 03902811].
Peer-reviewed book chapters
Pollacchi E. (2015) “Mature at Birth”: the Beijing International Film Festival between the National Film
Industry and the Global Film Festival Circuit.’ in C. Berry, L. Robinson, Chinese Film Festivals, New
York, Palgrave Macmillan (in print).
⎯ (2015) ‘Jia Zhangke, Diao Yinan and Ann Hui or, How I learned to stop worrying and love China’s
soft power’ in V. Luo, P. Voci (eds), Screening Soft Power in China, Routledge (forthcoming).
⎯ Pollacchi E. (2015) ‘Taiwanese cinema and the Venice Film Festival in the twenty-first century from
cultural discovery to cultural diplomacy’ in Kuei-fen Chiu, Ming-yeh T. Rawnslesy (eds), Taiwan Cinema,
International Reception and Social Change, Routledge (forthcoming).
⎯ (2014) ‘The rules of the game: how film festivals and sales agents have shaped the consumption of
Chinese (independent) films’ in M. Abbiati, F. Greselin (eds) Il liuto e i libri. [The lute and the books],
Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp.713-724 [ISBN 9788897735816].
⎯ (2009) ‘Tuffi di luce: acqua, nuoto e corpo nel cinema cinese’ (Diving into Electric Shadows: Water,
Swimming and the Body in Chinese Cinema), in C. Negri, G. Tamburello (eds.) L’acqua non è mai la
stessa. Le acque nella tradizione culturale dell'Asia, Firenze, Leo S. Olschki Editore, pp. 103-119 [ISBN
9788822258151].
⎯ (2008), ‘The Sound of the City: Chinese Films of the 1990s and Urban Noise’, in E. Wilson and A.
Webber (eds.), Cities in Transition. The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis, London, Wallflower Press,
pp. 193-204 [ISBN 9781905674312].
⎯ (2006), ‘Storytelling Gets into Action: The Film Dushi fengguang or a Shanghai Phantasmagoria
through Western Lenses’, in C. Anderl, H. Eifring, Studies in Chinese Language and Culture - Festschrift in
Honour of Christoph Harbsmeier on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Oslo, Hermes Academic Publishing, pp.
465-472 [ISBN 9788280340511].
⎯ (2005) ‘Tiexi qu. West of Tracks. Un’opera emblematica per un approccio interdisciplinare al cinema
cinese contemporaneo’ (Tiexi qu. West of Tracks. A multidisciplinary approach to contemporary Chinese
cinema), in T. Lippiello, M. Scarpari (eds.) Caro Maestro …Scritti in onore di Lionello Lanciotti per l’ottantesimo
compleanno (Festschrift), Venezia, Cafoscarina, pp. 951-963 [ISBN 978887543050].
Monographs
Pollacchi E., Wang Bing (2016 expected), “Chinese witness, International auteur” (tentative title).
Pollacchi E.; Marco Muller (2005) (eds) Ombre Elettriche. Cento anni di cinema cinese (1905-2005). (Electric
Shadows: One hundred years of Chinese Cinema), Electa, Milano 2005. [ISBN 9788837037154].
Articles and proceedings
Pollacchi E. (2015) “Chinese films 2015: sailing across European festivals and the Chinese audience”,
Kina Rapport, 4: 2015 (forthcoming).
⎯ (2014) “En ny guldålder för kinesisk film?”, Kina Rapport, 4: 2014, pp. 6-13 [ISSN: 0345-5807].
⎯ (2014) ‘Jia Zhangke’s taxonomy of violence: A Touch of Sin’, Orientaliska Studier, 138, 2014, 108-116
[ISSN 0345-8997].
⎯ (2014) ‘The 4th Xi’an China International Folk Video Festival (or an alternative way
to screen documentaries in China)’, at: http://chinesefilmfeststudies.org/the-4th-xianchinainternational-folk-video-festival-or-an-alternative-way-to-screen-documentaries-in-china/
[published in March 2014 as part of the activities of the Chinese Film Festival Studies Research
Network, an AHRB funded research projected; last accessed 28.05.2014].
⎯ (2013) ‘An Affair to Remember. Kim Ki-duk at the Venice International Film Festival’, Korean
Cinema Today, vol. 17, pp. 32-34 [ISSN 2092-5158].
⎯ (2013) ‘Cina. In corsa per superare Hollywood./China. Running to Surpass Hollywood’, in S. Locati
(ed) Asian Film Festival 11, Reggio Emilia: Edizioni Cineforum Robert Bresson, pp. 11-16 [ISBN
9788889653166].
⎯ (2008) ‘Stanley Kwan: identità e desiderio/Stanley Kwan: Identity and Desire’, in D. Oberto, C.
Santoro (eds), Da Sodoma a Hollywood. XXIII Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino: Torino GLBT Film
Festival, pp. 349-360 (bilingual publication in Italian and English) [ISBN 978-88-903209-3-4].
⎯ (2007) ‘Rumori di fondo. Il sopravvento del sonoro nel cinema cinese contemporaneo’ (Background
Noise: the Use of Sound in Contemporary Chinese Cinema), in A. Palermo (ed.) La Cina e l'altro,
Napoli: Ed. Università degli Studi di Napoli, pp. 161-179; [ISBN 88-950944-04-5].
⎯ (2007) ‘Cui Zi'en: herald of the free image’, in D. Oberto, C. Santoro (eds.), Da Sodoma a Hollywood.
XXII Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino: Torino GLBT Film Festival, pp. 210-213 (bilingual publication
in Italian and English).
⎯ (2006),‘Yonfan’s Trilogy: the refined lightness of a cosmopolitan glance’, in D. Oberto, C. Santoro
(eds.), Da Sodoma a Hollywood. XXI Torino GLBT Film Festival, Torino, Torino GLBT Film Festival: 204212. (bilingual publication in Italian and English).
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⎯ (2004) ‘L’invenzione di un mito. Lo star-system nella Cina di ieri e di oggi’ (The development of the
star-system in modern and contemporary China) in G. Tamburello (ed) L’invenzione della Cina. Acts of the
VIII Conference of the Italian Association for Chinese Studies, Lecce: Congedo Editore, pp.141-167 [ISBN
9788880865940].
⎯ (2004) ‘Detours China’ in Catalogue of the 22nd Torino Film Festival, Torino: Lindau, pp. 122-123.
⎯ (2001) “Paesaggi Urbani. Lo sguardo del cinema sulla città” (Urban landscapes. Cinema ‘viewing’ the
city) in QA. Quaderni dell’Amicizia, Acts of the Congress “Photography and cinematography in China”, Roma, pp. 6376.
Publications related to curatorial work
Pollacchi E. (2013), ‘Eyes on Asia’ in Kosmorama – 9th Trondheim International Film Festival,
Trondheim: Kosmorama Internasjonale Filmfestival, pp. 49-59 (Introductory article and film
presentations in Norwegian and English. Invited curator of the section ‘Eyes on Asia’ of the festival
Kosmorama).
⎯ (2012), ‘Eyes on Asia’ in Kosmorama – 8th Trondheim International Film Festival, Trondheim:
Kosmorama Internasjonale Filmfestival: 26-38 (Introductory article and film presentations in
Norwegian and English. Invited curator of the section ‘Eyes on Asia’ of the festival Kosmorama).
⎯ (2011), ‘Eyes on Asia’ in Kosmorama – 7th Trondheim International Film Festival, Trondheim:
Kosmorama Internasjonale Filmfestival: 49-57 (Introductory article and film presentations in
Norwegian and English. Invited curator of the section ‘Eyes on Asia’ of the festival Kosmorama).
⎯ (2010), ‘Eyes on Asia’ in Kosmorama – 6th Trondheim International Film Festival, Trondheim: Kosmorama
Internasjonale Filmfestival: 50-62 (Introductory article and film presentations in Norwegian and
English. Invited curator of the section ‘Eyes on Asia’ of the festival Kosmorama).
Pollacchi E.; Giuseppe Ghigi (2009) (eds.), 24° Settimana Internazionale della Critica di Venezia, Milano,
Electa. (Catalogue of the 24. International Film Critics Week in Italian and English).
⎯ (2008) (eds.), 23° Settimana Internazionale della Critica di Venezia, Milano, Ed. Electa (Catalogue of the
23. International Film Critics Week in Italian and English).
⎯ (2007) (eds.), 22° Settimana Internazionale della Critica di Venezia, Milano, Ed. Electa (Catalogue of the
22. International Film Critics Week in Italian and English).
Film translations
Pollacchi E. Beixi moshou/Behemoth, Zhao Liang (dir.), Venice: 72nd Venice International Film Festival
(competition), 90’ (Adaptation of the Chinese narrative text modelled upon Dante’s Divine Comedy and
translation from Chinese).
⎯ (2014), Chuangru zhe/Red Amnesia, Wang Xiaoshuai (dir.), Venice: 71st Venice International Film
Festival (competition), 153’ (Italian subtitles for festival screenings).
⎯ (2013), Shuiyin jie/Trap Street, Vivan Qu (dir.), Venice: Venice International Film Festival (Film critics
week), 94’, (Italian subtitles for festival screenings).
⎯ (2013) Feng ai/’Til Madness Do Us Apart, Wang Bing (dir.), Venice: Venice International Film Festival
(Orizzonti), 240’ (Italian subtitles for festival screenings).
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⎯ (2012), San zimei/Three Sisters, Wang Bing (dir.), Rome: RaiTre (Fuori Orario), 150’ [subtitle
translator from and editor of the Italian edition of the film broadcasted by the Italian public TV
channel].
⎯ (2009) He Fengming, Wang Bing (dir, 2007), Rome: RaiTre - Fuori Orario, 186’ (translator and editor
of the Italian edition broadcasted by the Italian public TV channel RaiTre).
⎯ (2009) Tiexi qu/Tiexi qu. West of the Tracks, Wang Bing (dir, 2002), Rome: RaiTre - Fuori Orario, 534’
(translator and editor of the Italian edition broadcasted by the Italian public TV channel RaiTre).
⎯ (2008), Huanggua/Cucumber, Zhou Yaowu (dir.), Venice: Venice International Film Festival, 98’
(Subtitle translation for festival screenings).
⎯ (2006) Jia Zhangke, Sanxia haoren/Still Life (2006), Venice: Venice International Film Festival, 108’
(Subtitle translation for festival screenings).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
19 - 23 August 2015 – Visible Evidence XXII, International Conference on Documentary Film
and Media, Toronto (Canada): Wang Bing: international auteur, Chinese witness.
15 - 18 August 2013 – Visible Evidence XX, International Conference on Documentary Film and
Media, Stockholm University (Sweden):
‘From Private to Collective: The Family Space Between Art & Ethnography in Chinese Documentary’.
20 - 22 June 2013 – NECS Conference (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies),
Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (CZ):
‘Glamour and Ruins: the Chinese Obsession to Walk the Red Carpet’ as part of the panel ‘Media
Industry and ‘Economic Censorship’ in Post-authoritarian/Transitional Economies’. Panel proponent
and speaker.
23 - 25 January 2013 – International Research Workshop ‘Consuming Chinese Cinemas’, part of
the project ‘Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination’
(International Networks Project funded by the Leverhulme Trust), University of Amsterdam (NL):
‘Chinese films in relation to the changing scenario of international film festivals’. Invited speaker.
10-11 September 2012 – International Research Workshop: ‘Film Festivals Programming: From
Europe to Asia’ Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (co-organized with Prof Dina Iordanova, University
of St Andrew’s, Scotland). Local coordinator and participant.
16-21 March 2012 - Conference of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, Hong Kong University
(Hong Kong):
‘Wang Bing’s The Ditch: conflating ‘temporalities’ and spectacle of horrors in an utopian documentary
of the past’.
13-16 March 2012: International Research Workshop ‘A Multidisciplinary Exploration of
Chinese Independent Films’, University of Liège (Belgium):
‘The rules of the game: how film festivals and sales agents are shaping (our perception of) Chinese
Independent Cinema’, discussant Prof Chris Berry (King's College London). Invited paper.
26-28 February 2010 - V International Sinology Forum, Lisbon (Portugal):
‘Golden Lions: the role of international film exhibitions and awards in the evolution of the Chinese
film industry from Zhang Yimou (1992,1999) to Jia Zhangke (2006)’.
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5-7 March 2009 - IV International Sinology Forum, Oporto (Portugal):
‘Can it be True? Ruins, Converted Areas and the Glamorous City Space. Fiction and documentary
representations of space and identity in relation to the transforming city space’.
18 October 2007 - Workshop on Chinese culture and cinema, Bolzano (Italy):
‘China – West of California?’. Introduction and organization of a programme of Chinese film
screenings.
18 April 2007 – Research Seminar: L’acqua non è mai la stessa. Le acque nella tradizione culturale
dell'Asia (Cina-India-Giappone) [Water in Asian cultural traditions (China-India-Japan)], Lecce (Italy):
‘Diving into Electric Shadows: Water, Swimming and the Body in Chinese Cinema’.
29 March 2007, Padova (Italy):
Conference: ‘Understanding China through film’. Invited speaker
22-24 February 2007 - XI Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Cinesi [Italian
Association for Chinese Studies Conference], Rome (Italy):
‘Migrating within space and the arts: filmmakers and videoartists facing new urban spaces and new
perspectives’.
24-25 October 2005 – Symposium ‘From Past to Future: 100 Years of Chinese Cinema’, New
York (USA): ‘Visit the World Without Leaving Beijing: The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004) and Dushi
fengguang (Yuan Muzhi, 1935)’.
10-12 March 2005 - X Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Cinesi [Italian
Association for Chinese Studies Conference], Venice (Italy):
‘Fiction to document the present: Chinese cinema and representations of citylife’.
26-29 August 2004 - XV Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Heidelberg
(Germany):
‘Structures and modes of film production in contemporary China: changes, ruptures and new
perspectives’.
8-10 July 2003 - International Conference of Visual Sociology, Southampton (UK):
‘Representations of workers in Chinese cinema’.
25 February 2003, University of Leeds (UK)
Conference: ‘Cinematic Representations of Contemporary China’. Invited speaker.
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