Film | Digital Media

I will present this study at Bridges Across Cultures. International Studies Institute in Florence; Palazzo Rucellai.  Florence, Italy July 2, 2015 – July 5, 2015.  The internal confilct of Salieri when confronted with Mozart’s genius has been portrayed starting from Pushkin’s “little tragedy” Mozart and Salieri (1830), to Shaffer’s play Amadeus (1979), which in turn inspired the acclaimed film by Forman (1984). These texts explore the mystery of genius and the theme of envy by juxtaposing different

Over the Spring semester, I started producing a video documenting the “Race, Genetics and Ethnicity: Comparing Categorical and Ancestral Identities” project, interviewing the participants and discussing the issues at stake with the other fellows involved. To be presented at the Spring Humanities Symposium (February 25; Parmer Cinema, 7 : 00 PM). From the proposal: “Recent genetic research has begun to reveal the deep histories of human DNA through identifying human haplogroups — that is, groups

An article on my scholarship appeared on the Fall 2014 issue of The Bridge. Film professor publishes article about Zapruder film, a video of the JFK assassination, in Slovenian journal Fabrizio Cilento, an assistant professor of film and digital media at Messiah, says he has always been fascinated by technology’s impact on the history of visual culture. This long-time interest is detailed in his recent article about the film footage of the assassination of President John

An event that I have organized in collaboration with the Department of Communication and the School of the Humanities. The Power of Simulation: From The Matrix to Avatar What do contemporary Science Fiction movies tell us about ourselves? Is there a sense in which these fictions of the future reflect something essential about the reality of the present? In this lecture, Dr. Nidesh Lawtoo (Johns Hopkins University) suggests that The Wachowski Brothers’ The Matrix (1999) and, more

I will present this essay at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Session ~ The Nouvelle Vague at 60: A Reassessment.  Presiding: Jackie Cameron. April 30-May 3 2015. Toronto, Canada ABSTRACT: This study discusses the repressive double narrative of French modernization and the Algerian war as it emerges in New Wave films. The decolonization and the accelerated socio-economic modernization are not to be considered separate histories but are deeply interrelated, since the war represents a sort

If you teach science fiction cinema or are passionate about the genre: here are two supercuts and a selected filmography  FILMOGRAPHY A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902) Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) The Blob (Irvin Yeaworth, 1958) La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962) Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971) Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) Westworld (John

  I will be presenting this paper at the conference: Oh! The Horror!: The Supernatural in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture Pennsylvania College English Association 2014 Conference October 3-4, 2014,  State College, PA Many critics praised the zomromcom Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine, 2013) for its originality in evoking Romeo and Juliet, although other classical pieces of literature have recently been interpreted with major zombie or vampire romance elements. In this study, I argue that the innovative

“The Missed Encounter with the Actor-Poet: Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Bodini According to Ruggero Jacobbi”. California Italian Studies Journal, issue on “Italian Sound” (Vol. 4). Eds. Rossella Carbotti, Deanna Shamek and Arielle Saiber. ABSTRACT: This study is an exploration of Carmelo Bene through the critical writings of Ruggero Jacobbi. An analysis of Jacobbi’s writings reveals that the poetic production of Vittorio Bodini has been the main inspiration and propeller for Bene’s theatrical work. Bodini’s Baroque

The teaser for the science fiction action/romance project that I am supervising/co-producing this semester. Enjoy!