New Narrative Practices from Adaptation to Transmedia and Transnational Cinema
A seminar in honor of Millicent Marcus, with guest film director, Susanna Nicchiarelli
Program
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015
4:30pm – Ware College House, Great Room
Welcome by Provost Joel Martin, Franklin & Marshall College
Introduction: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College
Millicent Marcus, Yale University: “From MTV to cinema impegnato: Transmedia Encounters in La Mafia uccide solo d'estate.”
6pm – Reception
7pm – Lisa Bonchek Adams Auditorium
Susanna Nicchiarelli: “Intermediality in Women’s Cinema” , with screenings of Per tutta la vita, 2014 (52 minutes) and Cosmonauta, 2009 (87 minutes) and a Q&A with the director.
Introduction: Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015
Ware College House, Great Room
Introduction: Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh and Crystal Hall, Bowdoin College
9:00-10:45 Panel 1: Images and Adaptation
Moderator: Deborah Amberson, University of Florida
Massimiliano Delfino, Columbia University. “La Mafia uccide solo d’estate as the Anti-Monument for the Immunization from the Mafia.”
Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri. “Voice and Vision. The making of L’amore molesto by Mario Martone.”
Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah College. “Network Narrative in Diaz, Don’t clean up this blood.”
Lorenzo Fabbri, University of Minnesota. “In Defense of Mixed Cinema 2.0: New Italian Documentaries by Women as Intermedial Adaptation.”
11:00-12:45 Panel 2: Transmedia and Transnational Adaptations
Moderator: Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University
Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island & Graduate Center/CUNY. “ ‘Sient’amico chell ca’ te dico’. Sympathy for the Renegade in Gomorra: La serie.”
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, Fairfield University. “Translating and Adapting Films Across Borders: Italy and America.”
Cosetta Gaudenzi, The University of Memphis. “Translating and Adapting Films Across Borders: American Remakes of Italian Movies in the Present Tense.”
Aine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University. “Participatory Filmmaking: Questions of Agency, Authorship and Voice.”
LUNCH: 12:45-1:45
2:00-3:30 Panel 3: Spaces of Adaptation
Moderator: Silvia Carlorosi, Fordham University
L. Scott Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College. Ferrario’s La Luna su Torino. Comedy and a New Cinema of Poetry.
Luca Peretti, Yale University. “Oltre l’adaptation: Lizzani, Debenedetti e l’ex ghetto di Roma.”
Daniel Leisawitz, Muhlenberg College. “Roberto Rossellini: Between the Past and the Future of Documentary.”
3:45-5:15 Panel 4: Adaptation of Classic Narratives
Moderator: Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University
Daniela Bini, University of Texas, Austin. “Leopardi in Music and Film: Giovanna Marini and Mario Martone.”
Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University. ““Renzo e Luciana: Monicelli reinscrive Calvino nella società dei consumi.”
Chelsea A. Pomponio, Franklin & Marshall College. “Pop Culture and the Poet: Adapting Dante for the YouTube Generation.”
5:30-6:30 Roundtable: “Millicent Marcus's Legacy: Inspiring Research, Empowering Community.”
Moderator: Elena Past, Wayne State University
Deborah Amberson, University of Florida - Silvia Carlorosi, Fordham University - Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University - Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College - Crystal Hall, Bowdoin College - Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh - Nicoletta Marini Maio, Dickinson College - Elena Past, Wayne State University - Gabriella Romani, Seton Hall University
Co-sponsored by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium; the Departments of Italian and Theatre, Dance, and Film at Franklin & Marshall; the Department of French and Italian, the Film Studies Program, and Women and Gender’s Studies at Dickinson College; the Department of Italian at Gettysburg College; Ware College House, Center for Liberal Arts and Society, Humanities Speakers Fund, and Humanistic Ideas, Vital Exchange Initiative (HIVE) at Franklin & Marshall College.
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