In collaboration with the McGill University, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Italian Studies, the Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal presents: Re-examining the Long “1950s”: The (Un)Making of the Contemporary Italian Cultural Identity, 12.
The objective of the project is to lay the foundation for a reinterpretation of the “long 1950s” as a key phase in the elaboration of the cultural erasures, marginalizations and distortions which constitute the unacknowledged but fundamental underside of contemporary Italian identity. Bringing this underside to light has ethical and political, as well as cultural implications: a deeper and more complex understanding of post-WW II Italy is an essential step in developing a fresh insight into some long-standing and frustrating impasses in contemporary Italian society with respect to issues of class, gender, religious and political ideology, etc.
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Re-examining the Long “1950s”: The (Un)Making of the Contemporary Italian Cultural Identity, 12: “Troppo vero per esser visto. Il documentario nella cultura italiana degli anni Cinquanta”, a lecture by Marco Bertozzi, Università Iuav di Venezia.
Bertozzi will explain the importance of the documentary as a tool for understanding and knowledge of the modern condition of the country. He will speak about the censorship of Italy is not a poor country, a controversial documentary produced by the Italian Radio/Television (RAI) in 1959, by the acclaimed Danish filmmaker Joris Ivens.
Wednesday April 5th, 2017 – 6:30pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 1200 Dr. Penfield,
Presentation will be in Italian. Free admission
Marco Bertozzi is a figure internationally recognized in the Italian panorama of the production of documentaries. His “History of Italian documentary: Images and other cultural cinema” (Venice, Marsilio 2008) is the one deep study devoted to documentary style in Italy. He was in Montreal on numerous occasions and in 2008, with McGill University, he took part in the conference “Prises de rue / Street Takes”, held at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal, from Project on European Cinema. His knowledge in the Italian film tradition and the cinema of the 50s (A crucial period for Italian films) makes it the ideal figure for this event. He is currently collaborating with Daniele Vicari on a documentary production about Italian contemporary.
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