Lucrezia Zaina Lecture 2016 with Professor Richard Dyer, TOWARDS LA DOLCE VITA
5:30pm - 7:30pm /
Wednesday 23rd November 2016
/ Venue: Mountford Hall.
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- Suitable for: Staff Students Alumni Those with an interest in Italian, languages, culture, film
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Renowned film studies scholar and Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Richard Dyer, will present the sixth in an annual lecture series on subjects of Italian interest made possible by a generous bequest from alumna and former lecturer in French and Italian, Lucrezia Zaina.
TOWARDS LA DOLCE VITA
Federico Fellini's ground-breaking 1960 comedy drama La Dolce Vita put Italian cinema firmly on the world stage with its tale of hedonistic excess. The film follows Marcello Rubini, a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and Oscar for Best Costumes, and remains one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
Professor Dyer will examine what La Dolce Vita came out of, including news and gossip stories, Rome films (including popular films about the intertwined lives of small groups of mainly working-class Romans and tourist films such as Roman Holiday and Three Coins in the Fountain) and also the legacy of neo-realism with its emphasis on the use of non-actors, location shooting and episodic structures. He will look at the way that Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is rooted in all these and, through them, the society of its time, while also transforming them into symbol and spectacle.
PROFESSOR RICHARD DYER studied French at St. Andrews University and was one of the first people to be awarded a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. He taught Film Studies at Warwick University (where he was made the first full Professor of Film Studies in the UK) and currently teaches Film at King’s College London. He has been a visiting scholar in, among other places, Antwerp, Bergamo, Chicago, Copenhagen, Cornell, Dublin, Gothenburg, Naples, New York (NYU), Pennsylvania (Annenberg School), Rutgers, Salerno, St Andrews, Stanford, Stockholm, SUNY Stony Brook, Vienna, Weimar and Zürich. His work combines an attention to the aesthetics of entertainment with a concern with social representation and his books include Stars, Only Entertainment, The Matter of Images, White, The Culture of Queers, Pastiche, Nino Rota and La dolce vita. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received honours from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, University of Turku, Harvard University and the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
ITALIAN has been taught at this university since 1881 and today Italian Studies is housed within the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC). We are a small and friendly community of academic and teaching staff whose research and teaching interests cover contemporary fiction, linguistics, film and cultural studies. Italian Studies
FILM STUDIES has long been taught as part of Modern Languages and Communication Studies courses, but only in recent years has it become an independent subject. It draws on expertise from scholars in several departments, especially Communication Studies and Music, to make up a varied and dynamic community.Film studies
The lecture is funded by a generous legacy bequest from Lucrezia Zaina, known as Lexie, who was a lecturer in French and Italian at the University from 1964 until 1988. Legacy gifts are a significant source of donations to the University and benefit the institution long into the future, funding ground-breaking research, scholarships and bursaries and improving facilities for students. Since 2012 a reduced rate of Inheritance Tax is applicable to estates that leave at least 10% to charity, increasing the benefits of legacy gifts further. If you would like further information on legacy gifts please contact Stephen Kehoe: 0151 795 4637 / stephen.kehoe@liverpool.ac.uk
TOWARDS LA DOLCE VITA
Federico Fellini's ground-breaking 1960 comedy drama La Dolce Vita put Italian cinema firmly on the world stage with its tale of hedonistic excess. The film follows Marcello Rubini, a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. La Dolce Vita won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and Oscar for Best Costumes, and remains one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time.
Professor Dyer will examine what La Dolce Vita came out of, including news and gossip stories, Rome films (including popular films about the intertwined lives of small groups of mainly working-class Romans and tourist films such as Roman Holiday and Three Coins in the Fountain) and also the legacy of neo-realism with its emphasis on the use of non-actors, location shooting and episodic structures. He will look at the way that Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is rooted in all these and, through them, the society of its time, while also transforming them into symbol and spectacle.
PROFESSOR RICHARD DYER studied French at St. Andrews University and was one of the first people to be awarded a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. He taught Film Studies at Warwick University (where he was made the first full Professor of Film Studies in the UK) and currently teaches Film at King’s College London. He has been a visiting scholar in, among other places, Antwerp, Bergamo, Chicago, Copenhagen, Cornell, Dublin, Gothenburg, Naples, New York (NYU), Pennsylvania (Annenberg School), Rutgers, Salerno, St Andrews, Stanford, Stockholm, SUNY Stony Brook, Vienna, Weimar and Zürich. His work combines an attention to the aesthetics of entertainment with a concern with social representation and his books include Stars, Only Entertainment, The Matter of Images, White, The Culture of Queers, Pastiche, Nino Rota and La dolce vita. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has received honours from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, University of Turku, Harvard University and the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.
ITALIAN has been taught at this university since 1881 and today Italian Studies is housed within the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLC). We are a small and friendly community of academic and teaching staff whose research and teaching interests cover contemporary fiction, linguistics, film and cultural studies. Italian Studies
FILM STUDIES has long been taught as part of Modern Languages and Communication Studies courses, but only in recent years has it become an independent subject. It draws on expertise from scholars in several departments, especially Communication Studies and Music, to make up a varied and dynamic community.Film studies
The lecture is funded by a generous legacy bequest from Lucrezia Zaina, known as Lexie, who was a lecturer in French and Italian at the University from 1964 until 1988. Legacy gifts are a significant source of donations to the University and benefit the institution long into the future, funding ground-breaking research, scholarships and bursaries and improving facilities for students. Since 2012 a reduced rate of Inheritance Tax is applicable to estates that leave at least 10% to charity, increasing the benefits of legacy gifts further. If you would like further information on legacy gifts please contact Stephen Kehoe: 0151 795 4637 / stephen.kehoe@liverpool.ac.uk