ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)

ON THE RADAR: ‘What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy’ with Lucia Di Girolamo (University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”)
Tuesday 22 November 2022, 1300-1400
Cantor 9235

All welcome, free to attend – and please share with your colleagues and PGR students!

Please join us for ON THE RADAR, an informal research seminar promoting the sharing of knowledge within the SHU community. Next week we are pleased to host Lucia Di Girolamo of University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, hosted by Dr Rinella Cere for a research seminar exploring cultural heritage as a tool of understanding in Italian documentary filmmaking, in What Cultural Heritage? Cinema in and on Southern Italy.

Between the 1950s and 1960s, some of Italy’s greatest documentary filmmakers such as Luigi Di Gianni, Lino Del Fra, Michele Gandin and Cecilia Mangini recorded the last rituals that balanced the relationship between man and nature in rural cultures. When historical and social conditions change as a result of modernisation, the balance is completely broken. All that remains is to record the crisis and weave a discourse on its ashes that denounces the loneliness of a civilisation that is no longer understood. Is it possible to maintain the link with the past and adopt cultural heritage as a tool for understanding the present and its problems?

Lucia Di Girolamo is a researcher at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. From 24 August 2020 to 31 December 2021, she was a research fellow for the PRIN project (Progetto di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale) Archives of the South at the University of Catania. She completed her doctoral study in History of Performing Arts (History of Cinema) from the University of Florence in 2009. Her main research interests are focused on the investigation of the ‘artistic and cultural heritage’ in silent and contemporary cinema, on the representation of the Italian South in audiovisual products, on the representation of women, on the relations between cinema, theater and song in the early years of the twentieth century and on the landscape as a mythopoetic horizon for reworking identities. She has published two books: Il cinema e la città. Identita, riscritture e sopravvivenze nel primo cinema napoletano (Cinema and the City. Identity, Rewriting and Survivals in Early Neapolitan Cinema, ETS, 2014); Per amore e per gioco. Sul cinema di Pedro Almodovar. (For Love and Play. On the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar, ETS, 2015). She has also published numerous articles on myth and cinema, on women and cinema and on Southern Italian cinema. Currently she is researching the ways in which cinema reproposes cultural heritage via the digital platforms.

For more details or to be added as a future presenter contact d [dot] rodgers [at] shu [dot] ac [dot] uk / @dianearodgers.

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Images: Stills from Lino Del Fra’s La passione del grano (The Passion of Wheat, 1960).