Dr Dalila Missero
Lecturer in Film StudiesResearch Interests
My main research interests are the everyday and genered aspects of transnational film production and consumption, focusing on both historical and contemporary film cultures. I use feminist methodologies to address abscences and omissions in historical narratives and film canons, and over the years I have built solid expertise in archival research, oral history and biographical interviewing and, more recently, in digital humanities. My monograph “Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture” for Edinburgh University Press (2022, winner of the BAFTSS Best First Monograpg Runner-Up Award) represents the first feminist historical assessment of women's role in Italian cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s. I am currently working on a second book project focusing on the networks of production and distribution of feminist and women's filmmaking during the UN Decade of Women (1975-1985).
Another strand of my research focuses on migrant women filmmaking and cinema-going, with a particular focus on transnational practices and circulation between Latin America and Europe.
My Role
I am founder and leader of the Audience research Network at Lancaster University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars with shared interests in researching media consumption and engagement from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Current Teaching
POSTGRADUATE (MA)
I contribute lectures to the following modules on the MA in Film Studies, Transnational Cinemas (LICA441) and I lead the optional module Cinema and History (LICA416).
I supervise MA dissertations using both theory and practice-based methodologies.
UNDERGRADUATE
I lead the 2nd-year core module, Global Cinemas: Forms, Debates, Histories (LICA251) and contribute to lectures to the first year core-module Introduction to Film Studies (LICA150), thesecond-year option modules Film Theory (LICA252) and Documentary Cinema (LICA257).
I supervise undergraduate dissertations on a variety of topics, including dissertations that combine film practice with theory.
PhD Supervision Interests
I accept proposals from prospective students who want to research women's film cultures through both historical and/or contemporary lenses. I am also interested in projects exploring minoritarian, peripheral film cultures, in Europe and in South America with transnational and feminist lenses; projects using digital humanities for historical and archival research; research adopting qualitative methods for the study of film industries and audiences.
Selected Publications
Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture
Missero, D. 29/12/2021 Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 200 p. ISBN: 9781474463249. Electronic ISBN: 9781399513326, 9781474463270.
Book
Memory and gender as migrant audience formations: Latin American women remembering cinema and films across borders
Missero, D. 30/11/2021 In: Participations. 18, 2, p. 436-453. 18 p.
Journal article
All Publications
Broadcasting UK Feminist Video: Mapping Local Histories and Transnational Networks of the 1980s in the BFI Archive
01/09/2022 → 31/12/2022
Research
Feminist Useful Cinema: Women’s Films, Activism and Global Networking during the UN Decade for Women (1975-85)
Invited talk
Showcasing Women’s (Media) Labour as Global Empowerment. An Institutional Documentary for the UN Decade of Women (1975-85)
Oral presentation
On Digital and Analogue Fractures: Reflections on a Feminist Research in the BFI National Television Archive
Oral presentation
The Film Forum and Nairobi ‘85: Mapping Alliances and Networks of Solidarity during the UN Decade of Women
Oral presentation
Looking for film history in the feminist transnational archive: The Film Forum at Nairobi '85
Invited talk
Mapping transnational feminist filmmaking of the 1980s in the BFI National Television Archive
Oral presentation
Gender, Media, and Developmentalism: A Networking and Methodological Workshop
Symposium
“Women, Film and Archives. An Interstitial Historiography?”
Invited talk
Global Feminist Film Networks in the Late ‘70s. Distributors and Activist Press as Agents of Transnational Exchange
Oral presentation
Gender, Migration and Transatlantic Documentaries. Interviewing Latin-American Women Directors
Oral presentation
Best First Monograph Runner-Up Award, BAFTSS - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
Prize (including medals and awards)