The Department of French & Italian presents a lecture by
Antonio Vitti
From Neorealism to Americanization: Cultural Transformation and Socio-Political Changes Seen through Cinematic Lenses
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
5:00 pm
Persimmon Room,
Indiana Memorial Union
Through a study of specific films produced in the postwar era, the way in which Italian cinema has presented the passage from the arrival of the Allies in Italy to the difficult coexistance between the two nationalities will be analyzed along with its repercussions on the new cinema and the new national identity emerging after Fascism.
Antonio Vitti is Professor of Italian at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Il primo Pasolini e la sua narrativa (Peter Lang, 1987), Giuseppe De Santi and Postwar Italian Cinema (Toronto UP, 1996), and Amerigo. Esercizi (co-author with Maria Pignatelli, Editions Soleil, 2000), as well as numerous articles on Italian cinema and culture. He is currently completing work on The Films of Gianni Amelio: The Search for a Cinema of Social Conscience True to his Roots.
Professor Vitti is a candidate for the senior position in Italian cinema in the Department of French and Italian, Indiana University-Bloomington.
