Millicent Marcus (Yale University) "What Lies Hidden Beneath the 'Blah Blah Blah': Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza." A talk in honor of Robert Cargni

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 5:30pm

Fisher Bennett 401

A talk in honor of Robert Cargni, Programmer, Film @ International House  Millicent Marcus is a professor of Italian at Yale University. She specializes in Italian culture from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literature, history, and film. She is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (Stanford French and Italian Studies, l979), Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton, l986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins, l993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins, 2002), and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (University of Toronto, 2007), as well as journal articles and encyclopedia entries on her fields of interest.