Kubrick database -- Elisa Pezzotta (Friday 19 July 2019)

Elisa Pezzotta, Ph.D. Cultore della materia University of Bergamo (Italy). Section editor of Cinergie, https://cinergie.unibo.it/. She is the author of the book Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime. She published articles and co-edited special issues about Kubrickian studies, namely:

 Slowness and Time Expanision in Long Takes:2001 A Spacey Odyssey, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, , Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective: Introduction and The Stanley Kubrick Archive: A Dossier of New Research in 2017. 

 The Magic of Time in Lolita: The Time Traveller Humbert Humbert in 2015 and The metaphor of dance in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket in 2012.

 She has presented conferences on Kubrick as well. She presented Translating Terror in Kubrick's The Shining and A Ballet of Violence in A Clockwork Orange. 

 Elisa Pezzotta specializes in adaptation studies, and the represenation and perception of time in films. [1]

 Elisa Pezzotta can be reached via email at: elisa.pezzotta@virgilio.it 


Photo of Elisa Pezzotta delivering her presentation. Photo taken by Karen Ritzenhoff. 

 Presentation:
Elisa Pezzota finished the presentations of the conference by bringing forth a project called Kubrick Scholars Network and Database (KSND). 

 The main aims of KSDN are two.The first aim is to gather as much information as possible to enrich our knowledge about the director, his life work, and legacy; and the second aim is to put in contact scholars, fans and artists inspired by the director's works of art to cooperate and look for new compelling questions, approaches, and fields of research. 

 KSND will be constituted by five main sections: 

 The fist section will be a bibliography divided in books, chapters in books, and articles in journals about Kubrick;

 The second section will be a researchers' network. The name, city and country of Kubrick scholars and artists inspired by the filmmaker will be showcased on this page. Scholars and artists can use this page in order to easily exchange ideas and projects. In doing so the KSND intends to create an international community of Kubrick aficionados. 

 The third page will be dedicated to calls for papers. Papers for conferences, workshops and articles in journals and books willl be called upon on this page.

 The fourth page will be to showcase the art legacy, of Stanley Kubrick. This will probably be divided into sections of: 

  1. The first subdivision will be Exhibitions;
  2. the second subdivision will be Kubrickalia;
  3. the third subdivision will be fine arts: architecture, conceptual art (e.g. installations), films about Kubrick, music videos, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, sequential arts (e.g. comics), television advertisement, video essays;
  4. the fourth subdivision will be performing arts: dance, theater; 
  5. and the fifth subdivision will be pages - to be examined - about primary sources, such as: testimonies, document, artifacts, and iconographic sources (e.g. photographs and footage about Kubrick or his collaborators and friends). 
Made in collaboration with Nathan Abrams from the University of Bangor (UK), Mick Broderick from the University of Murdoch (Australia), James Fenwick from the Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and Stefano Ghislotti and Elisa Pezzotta with the support of the University of Bergamo (Italy) the KSND intends to bring the world of Kubrick academia closer together with a single, convenient and effective website. [2]


Photos of the demo-version of KSND. Photos taken by Karen Ritzenhoff. 

Bibliography: 

 "ELISA PEZZOTTA: Università Degli Studi Di Bergamo (University of Bergamo)." Academia. edu, https://unibg.academia.edu/ELISAPEZZOTTA. [1]

 Pezzotta, Elisa. “Kubrick database.” Stanley Kubrick, Life and Legacy. 19 July 2019, Leiden. [2]

Presentation by: Elisa Pezzotta


Blog post by: Miguel Mira

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