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Thursday, November 12, 2015
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Rome, Open City: Examining the legacy after seventy yearsRuns from Thursday, November 12 to Friday, November 13. An international conference held at the Department of Film and Television Studies, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, 12-13 November, 2015 . Organised by Louis Bayman, Stephen Gundle, Karl Schoonover
The release of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City in September 1945, just months after the Liberation of Italy, is a landmark in both cinema and Italian history. The film’s tale of popular resistance in Nazi-occupied Rome brought Italy to international audiences. It announced a new aesthetics of cinema - neorealism - that would have a global impact, attracting attention and often controversy for its bold assertion of the necessary relationship between art and politics. The film is a central reference point for cinematic realism and aesthetic radicalism, influencing movements from the French New Wave to Brazilian Cinema Novo, British social realism and Dogme 95. It remains a key influence for contemporary filmmakers as well as an important reference point in areas as diverse as cultural geography, gender studies, performance, historiography, aesthetic philosophy, and the study of war, fascism and torture. Organised with the particpation of DAMS, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Universita' di Torino.
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In Robesons footsteps: to be or not to be?Performance and discussion: Thursday 12 November | 18:00–21:00Exhibition: 12 -22 November
In 1930, singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson made history by playing Othello. An exhibition, performance and discussion will draw from this dramatic moment – a black performer on a white stage, confronting prejudice. After dozens of interviews with BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) actors and directors, and joining forces with Birmingham’s The Drum, the University’s Multicultural Shakespeare project presents an exhibition and a drama documentary, where three of today’s leading performers speak the pioneers’ words – and their own. The exhibition, ‘To tell my story’, will be on throughout the festival. Free Admission | No booking requiredEvent enquiries: info@the-drum.org.uk Led by:
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Wolfson Research Exchange, 3rd Floor University Library
Featuring Irish academic and language activist, Dr. Feargal MacIonnrachtaigh |
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