THINKING ITALIAN FILM

Seminar series 2006/7

Department of Italian, University of Leeds (UK)

 

16:00 October 18 2006

(room G.19, Old Mining Building, Woodhouse Lane)

 

Robert Gordon (Cambridge) ‘The Holocaust in Italian Cinema: Displaced Histories’

Session hosted in association with the Centre for Jewish Studies, Leeds University

 

All subsequent seminars held in the World Cinemas Seminar Room

(LG15 Michael Sadler Building) Leeds University

                  

17:00 November 22 2006

 

John David Rhodes (Sussex) ‘Pasolini and the representation of Rome’

John Foot (UCL) Documentary and the City

 

16:00 February 27 2007

 

Millicent Marcus (Yale) ‘Italian Cinema for the New Millennium:  Return of the Referent’

 

16:00 March 14 2007

 

Steve Neale (Exeter) ‘Editing and Style in the Early Italian Epic’

Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia) Early Italian Film Theory

 

16:00 18 April 2007

 

Lesley Caldwell (UCL) Rome: City and Cinema

Mary Wood (Birkbeck) Urban Space and Italian Cinema

 

16:00 2 May 2007

 

Aine O’Healy (Loyola College) Representations of Sex Trafficking and Prostitution in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Danielle Hipkins (Exeter) ‘Fun and the Schoolboy Fantasy: the Prostitute in Italian Comedy of the 1960s’

 

Department of Italian/School of Modern Languages and Cultures

in association with the Centre for World Cinemas

Supported by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute

 

The Thinking Italian Film project is intended to challenge the status quo in Italian film studies, to expand theoretical approaches to the subject, and to remedy the present invisibility of Italian film in the field of screen studies as whole.

For more information contact:                                                                   

Alan O’Leary         a.o’[log in to unmask]

Catherine O'Rawe     [log in to unmask]