In the 1960s, the Italian western was the film genre which, more than others, promoted a reproduction of North American cinematographic imagery in Italian cinema: an operation which often took on the contours of recycling, if not of the true and downright plagiarism. This production was primarily aimed at commercial logic, and only secondarily did it also take on major authorial implications.
The meeting will analyze the recurring themes and styles of these films, then focusing on circulation strategies and reception in North America from an intertextual and transnational perspective.
Friday January 26th 2024 at 5:30pm
Cinémathèque Québécoise – 335, boul. De Maisonneuve East Montreal
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Conference held in English
Damiano Garofalo he is a researcher and teacher at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches History of Cinema, History of Television and Forms and Writings of Television Serials. He dealt above all with the relationship between cinema, history and memory, with particular reference to the cinematic representation of the Shoah, the cultural and social history of cinema and television in Italy, and the distribution of Italian cinema abroad in a historical perspective. In his latest book, Once Upon a Time in America. History of Italian cinema in the United States (2023), he studied the distribution and reception of Italian cinema in the United States from the Second World War to today.