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The Department of Romance Languages
and
The Center for Italian Studies
at the
University of Pennsylvania
CINEMA ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
A COLLOQUIUM ON FILM IN ITALIAN STUDIES
March 20 and 21, 1998
Williams Hall - Room 103/5
University of Pennsylvania
36th and Spruce Streets
CINEMA ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
A COLLOQUIUM ON FILM IN ITALIAN STUDIES
co-sponsored by
The Department of Romance Languages
and
The Center for Italian Studies
at the
University of Pennsylvania
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Opening reception
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Victoria Kirkham
Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
Lance Donaldson-Evans
Acting Chair, Department of Romance Languages
University of Pennsylvania
Anna Brigante Colonna
Consul General of Italy in Philadelphia
Stuart Curran
Director, Center for Italian Studies
Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Bushnell
Associate Dean for Arts and Letters
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Opening Address
Millicent Marcus
University of Texas
Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"Umbilical Scenes: Where Filmmakers Foreground their Relationship to
Literary Sources"
8:30 - 10:15 p.m.
Film Screening
*Blow-Up*
by Michelangelo Antonioni
Saturday, March 21
SATURDAY, MARCH 21
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Morning Session
- Interdisciplinary Connections -
Armando Maggi
University of Pennsylvania
"Pasolini's *Oedipus*: Myth, Capitalism, and the Theater of Conscience"
Victoria Kirkham
University of Pennsylvania
"An Italian Album-Film: Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's *Red Desert*"
Marguerite Waller
University of California at Riverside
"Scenes from the Story of Gender in Italian Cinema"
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Buffet luncheon.
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session
- Intercultural Connections -
Gaetana Marrone-Puglia
Princeton University
"Memory, Spectacle, and Representation in Cavani's *The Night Porter*"
Ellen Nerenberg
Wesleyan University
"Crime Seen: Serial Murder and Narrative in Italian Cinema and Popular
Culture"
2:30 p.m.
Film Screening and Final Talk
"*Uncovering, an Experimental Documentary*"
Anthony Tamburri
Purdue University
"Racism, Ethnicity, Gender, and Italian/American Cinema: Tom De Cerchio's
*Nunzio's Second Cousin* and Mariarosy Calleri's *Uncovering*"
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.
Closing Roundtable Discussion
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Mr. NICOLA M. GENTILI Office: (215) 898-6040 phone
Center for Italian Studies (215) 898-0933 fax
University of Pennsylvania Home: (215) 417-8416 phone
549 Williams Hall (215) 417-3222 fax
36th & Spruce Streets e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~ngentili/
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