Innovative Italian Directors of the 1950s and 1960s--Neorealism and Beyond

Dr. Gloria Pastorino
Professor of Italian and French, Department of Literature, Languages, Writing and Humanities
Fairleigh Dickinson University

5 Thursday afternoons, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Jan 23, (skip Jan 30), Feb 6, 13, 20, 27

What is Italian Neorealism? How did it change how films were made nationally and internationally, giving rise to the ‘French New Wave’ in the late 1950s and ‘60s? We will watch films by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica, Giuseppe DeSantis, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Dr. Gloria Pastorino is a Professor of Italian and French at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she teaches English and world literature, drama, and film. Her publications include Othello. As Interpreted by Luigi Lo Cascio (Bordighera, 2020), Beyond the Living Dead: Essays on the Romero Legacy (with Bruce Peabody, eds.; McFarland, 2021), For Love of the Punchline. DarioFo and the Reinvention of Stage Languages (Biblion, 2023), articles on Italian theater, cinema, migration, mafia, and masculinity, and translations of Italian plays. She received her PhD from Harvard University in Comparative Literature and a BA and MA in Modern Languages (English, French, Spanish), I.U.L.M., Milan, and an MA in English Literature from the University of New Mexico.

Florham Park Library, Akhoury Room: 107 Ridgedale Ave. Florham Park, NJ 07932

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