2009 AAIS Conference, St. John's University in Manhattan, NY from May  

7-10, 2009.



Views from the Grand Tour: On Cinema and Architecture



Over the centuries, grand tourists have produced numerous literary  

and artistic works that disseminated knowledge and captured the  

imagination of Italy. How has cinema, an art form that emerged during  

the fin-de-siècle and is uniquely adept at capturing architectural  

and town-planning configurations, depicted the Grand Tour cities?  

Following the lead of Bruno (1993), Bertozzi (2001), Cresti (2003)  

and others, we invite panelists to consider the nexus between Italian  

cinema and architecture, be it formal, structural, aesthetic,  

ideological, socio-historical, cultural, functional, or gender- 

related. Interdisciplinary and comparative studies are particularly  

welcome.



Organizers: Alberto Zambenedetti ([log in to unmask]) and Gaoheng  

Zhang ([log in to unmask]), Department of Italian Studies, New York  

University.

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