OCTOBER 08, 2015 - 03:30 PM - Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011
On the occasion of the publication of Lessico del cinema italiano: forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (Mimesis, 2014) edited by Roberto De Gaetano. As stated by authors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, especially after World War 2, Italian cinema was the most influential in the world, thanks to the works of Rossellini, De Sica and Visconti. However, albeit deeply Italian, the country's cinema was never nationalistic. It chose to point out styles and ways of life over identity. It was a cinema rooted into the raw flesh of the present, into a contemporary feeling free from any form of abstract nature.

This international conference will try to explore the link between cinema and Italian identity, between the image and reality, starting from the recent publication of Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita, edited by Roberto De Gaetano, a work in three volumes that projects a new view and builds an original conceptual map of the great tradition of Italian cinema.

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