Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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History and Auto/Biography: The Language of the Self and Contemporary Italian Cinema
(Conferences / Seminars / Lectures)
Marcia Landy
University of Pittsburgh
History and Auto/Biography: The Language of the Self and Contemporary Italian Cinema
Wednesday, Nov. 8
Philosophy, aesthetics and post-realist media productions have unseated conventional politics, blurring boundaries between biography and autobiography, fiction and documentation, the self and the Other. Select contemporary Italian cinematic texts,
identified with auto/biographical subjects of the Italian cultural and geopolitical landscape, rely on figural uses of self. Changing positions of the subject interweave with the author/viewer in Nanni Moretti's Il caimano, Liliana Cavani's Interno berlinese,
and Antonio Capuano's Pianese Nunzio. Different forms of address speak to self and Other invoking history and memory through literature, painting, architecture and crossbreed with generic and experimental forms including melodrama, horror, comic grotesque, and documentary to become counter-history.
Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor Emerita in English/Film Studies with a secondary appointment in the French and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
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