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Contemporary Italian Cinema I: Otherness and In-Betweenness

Session 1 - Saturday 8:15-9:45am
Presiding Officer: 
Fulvio Orsitto
  1. Italy in Black and White. Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto, Auburn University

    My paper discusses the topic of integration of African immigrants in Italian society through Comencini’s film White and Black (2008) and Mazzacurati’s film The Right Distance (2007).

  2. An Oneiric Realism: Matteo Garrone’s Terra di mezzo. Vetri Nathan, University of Denver

    This paper assesses the first full-length feature film by director Matteo Garrone, and highlights the peculiar and innovative stylistic elements that subsequently find major expression in the director's acclaimed film Gomorra.

  3. Cinema and Immigration: Fear of the Other in Recent Italian Film. Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University

    This paper looks at recent films that deal with the problem of immigration vis-à-vis the ineffective, progressively stricter laws that have been passed in the past ten years.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed