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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Gabriele Pedulla Monday, November 12, 2012 Movies and Spectators After the CinemaGABRIELE PEDULLÀ is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Rome III. He published a book on the partisan writer Beppe Fenoglio (2001) and a monograph on Machiavelli’s theory of conflict (2011). For his first book of fiction, the prize-winning collection of short stories Spanish Made Simple (Lo spagnolo senza sforzo, 2009), he was selected as one of the ten best Italian writers under forty by the literary supplement of "Il Sole 24 Ore"Plasma screens, portable players, computers, videophones, handhelds: moving images are no longer designed for just one technical support, nor do they impose on spectators a single viewing style. If for the entire 20th century people attended films following a precise ritual inherited from the live theatre, silent and sedate in the darkness of the auditorium, today this tie between movies and movie theatres seems less crucial every day. Moving images are everywhere and seem to follow us in our daily lives, at home as in public places or transit. How do films change to adapt to this new situation? And, above all, how has the experience of those who watch changed? Facing one of the decisive transformations in the history of Western aesthetics, from the Renaissance until today, Gabriele Pedullà attempts to investigate films in the age of individual media to reason about the metamorphosis of a spectator increasingly free but also increasingly loath to let himself be truly moved by the images flashing before him. A revolution of the gaze that is remodeling the entire system of the arts and is destined to profoundly shape contemporary creativity in all its manifestations. A story that began five hundred years ago, in Palladio’s Italy, or perhaps even earlier, in the Athens of the great tragedians, is coming to a definitive close. The only way to avoid passive subjugation to the epochal metamorphosis of aesthetic experience as such is to completely understand it. Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema Sponsor: Division of Languages and Literature Contact: Joseph Luzzi. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7150 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/