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The Coming of La dolce vita Seminar

Origin:
Film
Film reel
Time:
16:00 - 17:45
Date:
29 November 2016
Venue:
Lecture Theatre B Avenue Campus Faculty of Humanities University of Southampton SO17 1BF

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Louis Bayman at L.D.Bayman@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Part of the Film Research Seminar Series 2016 - 2017. All welcome.

Speaker information

Professor Richard Dyer , Professorial Fellow in Film Studies, St. Andrews University. La dolce vita is one of the most famous films ever made, an international and often scandalous hit that gave the world not only the term and idea encapsulated in its title but also 'paparazzi'. It is a film about gossip and news that was itself news and is based in the news stories, fashionable people and actual fashions of its time. This talk looks at this whole process, the real and fictional images of Rome La dolce vita draws on, the way it relates to neo-realism in its use of non-actors, location shooting and episodic structures and the way that it transmutes them into symbol and spectacle. La dolce vita is rooted in the real and yet refuses to present itself as realist, insisting on the way knowledge of the real is always literally mediated.

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