Session Details

Friday, 07 January

370. Contemporary Italian Cinema: Mediterranean and Transnational Echoes

5:15–6:30 p.m., 306A, LA Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Fulvio S. Orsitto, California State Univ., Chico

1. “The Magic of Puglia: Rubini’s Postmodern Mediterraneanism,” Giovanna De Luca, Coll. of Charleston

2. “The Dissonant Universe in Özpetek’s Saturn in Opposition,” Annachiara Mariani, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

3. “Odd Couples: Transnational Affinities and Affective Disruptions in Italy’s Cinema of Migration,” Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount Univ.

4. “The Hyphen-nation of Ferzan Özpetek’s Queer-Italian-Turkish Cinema,” William Watson, Univ. of Arizona

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