On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Luigi Pirandello’s birth, screening of Bellocchio’s film based on Pirandello’s play of the same name. A man falls from his horse and hits his head, and wakes up believing he is King Henry IV.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Professor Thomas Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will introduce the screening.
Thomas Harrison received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, City University New York and is a Professor of Italian. He specializes in modern European intellectual history, literature, the comparative arts and film. He also researches contemporary Italian critical theory, music, the modernist novel and poetics, and the avant-garde.
He has published studies of Leopardi, Claudio Magris, Carlo Michelstaeder, Gianni Vattimo, Ungaretti, Montale, and Zanzotto, Elsa Morante, Antonio Tabucchi and Gianni Celati. He is also the author of 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance, a study of European expressionism across the arts, and Essayism: Conrad, Musil and Pirandello.
Organized by the IIC with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
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