La sindrome dell’autore. Il cinema italiano contemporaneo negli Stati Uniti

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 circula2on of Italian audiovisual media, the films of Luca Guadagnino and Paolo Sorren2no 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. 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 Sorren2no), Youth (2015, Paolo Sorren2no), and A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino) will be briefly analyzed. Then, the cri2cal U.S. recep2on 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.