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Graduate Student Conference Program
October 28, 2003
After Fellini:
The Death of the Auteur?
In the
broadest sense, Fellini, whether as director, artist, public or
private persona, icon or iconoclast, epitomizes the embodiment of the auteur,
the controlling and creative force whose personal stamp, difficult to
categorize yet immediately recognizable, speaks to and for a movement,
a
nation, a generation, and perhaps mankind.
To scholars and artists who have followed in his wake, his
enduring
presence stands as a milestone, an inspiration, and sometimes an
obstacle. The difficulty of gauging and
articulating
the significance of his place in cinematic history is superseded by the
difficulty of separating the man from his works, and his works from his
processes.
With
these and other questions at the fore, and the occasion of the
larger conference on Fellini as impetus, this graduate conference will
feature
papers covering an array of topics, including those that stem from the
implications of an auteurist approach to filmmaking as a conceptual
approach to
film study.
Highlighting
this event will be invited talks by scholars Millicent
Marcus and Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, each of whom has addressed
the question of
the auteur in modern cinema, finding parallels and exceptions to
Fellini’s
model in the works of other directors.
The conference is also proud to sponsor a screening of Fellini’s
Intervista
(Interview), a contemplative and playful inquiry into his life
as a
filmmaker. This screening will be followed
by conversations with two of Fellini’s collaborators on the film,
scriptwriter
Gianfranco Angelucci and composer Nicola Piovani, whose contributions,
like
those of many others, confirm and complicate Fellini’s status as auteur.
Daytime Program
Conference Room
200ABC, HUB, University of Washington
9:30-10:00 a.m.
Coffee, introductions
Opening
remarks by
Albert Sbragia
10:00-11:30 a.m.
Panel One:
Wanda, Cabiria, and Ways of Wandering Through Space and Time. Chair:
Albert Sbragia
“Female
Spectatorship and the Flâneuse in Nights of Cabiria and The
White Sheik”—Lindy Leong, UCLA
“Contending
with Cabiria’s Smile”—Willis Konick, University of
Washington
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Panel
Two: Celebrations of Decadence and Rebirth.
Chair: Peter Bondanella
“Life
and Death in and of Carnival in Fellini’s Satyricon and I
clowns”—Lars Nowak, Free University of Berlin
“Visions
of Decay in Fellini’s Roman Trilogy”—Torunn Haaland, Indiana
University
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Panel
Three: Fellini’s Eroticism and Creative Anxiety. Chair:
Jennifer Bean
“The
Woman as Terrorist and the Status of Castration in Fellini’s La
città delle donne”—Graeme Stout, University of Minnesota
“Jungian
Visual Imagery in Fellini’s Graphic and Cinematic Oeuvre”—Hava
Aldouby, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Evening program
HUB Auditorium,
University of Washington
6:00-11:00 p.m.
After
Fellini: The Death of the Auteur?
6:00-7:00p.m.
Keynote Addresses by Millicent Marcus (University of
Pennsylvania) and Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz (Lycée
Saint-Louis, France)
8:00-9:45p.m.
Screening of Intervista
10:00-11:00p.m. Conversation with Intervista scriptwriter Gianfranco Angelucci and composer Nicola Piovani
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact lr@u.washington.edu