Antonio C. Vitti
Professor of Italian Cinema
Office: Ballantine Hall 630
Office phone: 855-2508
Email: ancvitti @indiana.edu
Research areas:
Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Literature and Culture and Italian Emigration
Education:
- PhD, Italian, University of Michigan, 1986
- MA, Italian, Wayne State University, 1977
- BA, History and Italian, Wayne State University, 1975
Background:
I began film studies at the University of Michigan and at Iowa University. My first hands-on experience with film making was with Giuseppe De Santis at Middlebury College. My research has been primarily in the areas of Film Studies and Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture. My interests include Pasolini, Scola, Wertmüller, De Santis, Rossellini, Amelio, Roversi, Montaldo, Rimanelli, Nanni Loy, Tornatore, Moretti and Monicelli. I am also interested in Italian American/Canadian writers and poetry from emigrants. Other interests include photography, political songs and the relationship between popular cinema and political power. I am currently working on the Americanization of Italian cinema during the Cold War.
Selected awards:
- Dana Fellowship, Wake Forest University, 1986 2008
- Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Wake Forest University, 1990-91.
- Certificate of Distinction for outstanding teaching based upon current and past evaluation in ADVTGE Magazine, April 14, 1986.
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 1981 82.
- Rackham Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1979 80.
- Maria G. Lalli Fellowship for graduate study in Italian, 1975.
Courses recently taught:
- Directing Practicum with film director Giuseppe De Santis.
- New Italian Cinema from 1975 to present.
- Film and Video camera in language learning for the Summer Institute for Teachers of Italian at Middlebury College, summer of 1995.
- Courses on all aspects of Italian Cinema, Postwar Italian Cinema.
- Neorealism and Contemporary Italian Cinema and Literature.
- The Southern Question in Literature and Films
- The Fabulous Fifties in Italian Films
- Italian Regional Differences: Viaggio nel cinema contemporaneo,
- Italian Resistance in Novels and Films,
- In Search of a New Italian National Identity after Fascism,
- La Sicilia in novelle, romanzi e film.
Publication highlights:
Books
The Films of Gianni Amelio. The Search for a Cinema of Social Conscience True to his Roots. Pesaro: Metauro Editori, 2009.
Ripensare il Neorealismo: Cinema, Letteratura, Mondo (a cura e con saggo di Antonio Vitti). Pesaro: Metauro Editori, 2008.
Incontri Culturali da oltre oceano (a cura e con saggo di Antonio Vitti). Pesaro: Metauro Editori, 2008.
Peppe De Santis secondo se stesso. Conferenze, conversazioni e sogni nel cassetto di uno scomodo scrittore di campagna (a cura e con saggi di Antonio Vitti). Pesaro: Metauro Editori, 2007.
Incontri con il cinema italiano. (a cura di Antonio Vitti) Caltannissetta: Sciascia Editore, 2003.
Giuseppe De Santis and Postwar Italian Cinema, Toronto: UP of Toronto, 2002.
Articles
“Il cinema italiano oggi” in Cultura & Comunicazione. Lingue e linguaggi/ Comunicanione e mass media/Didattica/Cultura. Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, giugno 2007, pp. 50-51.
“’Nati due volte’ di Giuseppe Pontiggia e ‘Le chiavi di casa’ di Gianni Amelio” Esperienze Letterarie XXXI, 2006, pp. 107-116.
“Voglio dire che cosa penso, ma che penso? Ovvero la condizione esilica
in
Aprile di Nanni Moretti” in Cross-Cultural
Relations and Exile, Legas
Publishing,
Spring 2005.
Riso amaro/Bitter Rice, in The Cinema of Italy, ed. Giorgio Bertellini. London: Wall Wallflower Press, 2004, pp. 53-60.
