First in a series of four lectures presented by Professor Joseph N. Spedaliere MA, Distinguished Professor of Italian Language and Culture at Concordia College.
With an incomparable history of artistic splendor, Italy’s cultural patrimony through is further glorified by the contributions of its filmmakers. Tracing the Italian cinema’s early development from silent film through the Fascist years to the arrival of Luchino Visconti’s pivotal and provocative Ossessione (1942), this lecture will focus on the changing, maturing face of Italian cinema.
