BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1270.events_uoft_date.0@www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca CREATED:20231220T204018Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, February 01, 2024 4:00 pm to 5: 00 pm \n Room 404, 4th floor \n Carr Hall \n 100 St. Joseph Street, Toro nto \n\nSpeakers \nDamiano Garofalo \n\nDescription: \nIn 1946 Roberto Ros sellini's Open City was released in the United States. Programmed in a sma ll art-house theater in downtown New York, it is the first non-American f ilm in history to gross more than a million dollars in the U.S.  The adven turous history of Italian cinema in the United States begins with the Nort h American success of the first Neorealist films, which will be reconstru cted by this lecture using a dual perspective: on the one hand, a focus o n places, modes, and spaces of distribution of Italian cinema in the U.S .; on the other, the critical reception and discourses generated by thes e films in the North American press. After addressing the circulation of N eorealism, the lecture will be focused on the 'golden season' of Italian auteur cinema: the films of Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelan gelo Antonioni, and Pier Paolo Pasolini contributed to the creation of a specific image of Italy in the American public. This imaginary is complica ted both by the circulation of popular Italian cinema (comedies, but also Westerns, poliziotteschi, and horror films) and by the processes of Ame ricanization of Italian cinema (Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Parad iso, Life is Beautiful). The lecture will conclude with a reflection on t he crisis of Italian cinema in the United States over the past two decades .Damiano Garofalo is an Assistant Professor in Cinema & Television History at Sapienza University of Rome. After having obtained a BA in Historical Studies and an MA in Contemporary History, in 2015 he discussed his Ph.D. dissertation in Cultural History at the University of Padova, with a the sis on the history of early Italian television audiences. He worked as an Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Padova, Udine, Modena and Reggi o Emilia, Cassino, and the Catholic University of Milan, where he was a lso a Post-doctoral researcher between 2017 and 2019. In 2016 he was hoste d as a Visiting Lecturer by McGill University in Montreal, and in 2019 he was a Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. In 2021 he won a research fund as a Coordinator Unit for the project ATLas - Atlas of Local Televisions in Italy (1976-1990), funded by the Italian Mi nister of University Research (PRIN 2020). He's actually the Principal Inv estigator of two research projects: Sport Politics. Football, Media and N ational Identity in Italy (1968-2006), also funded by the Italian Ministe r of University Research (PRIN 2022), and Politics of Culture in Italy: T he Institutionalisation of Cinema, Theatre and Performing Arts (1935-1965 ), funded by Sapienza University of Rome. In his latest book, C'era una volta in America. Storia del cinema italiano negli Stati Uniti (2023), he studied the distribution and reception of Italian cinema in the United St ates from the postwar period to the present. To attend this lecture in per son, please complete the online registration.This lecture will be livestr eamed on the Department's YouTube channel.All times stated in Eastern time . \n\nContact Information: \n Department of Italian Studies italian.studie s@utoronto.ca Department of Italian Studies \n\nSponsors \nEmilio Goggio C hair in Italian Studies - University of Toronto \n100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto \n\nCategories \n Goggio Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and Frie ndsCommunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsGraduating Students Prospective Graduate StudentsProspective Undergraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240201T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240208T220833Z LOCATION:100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto SUMMARY:Once Upon A Time in America: For A History of Italian Cinema in The United States URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca/events/once-upon-time-a merica-history-italian-cinema-united-states END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR