April 11 2013: Italian Fashion and Film lecture by Eugenia Paulicelli

Fashion and Film Italian Style during the Post-WWII Economic Boom: A Lecture by Prof. Eugenia Paulicelli (Queens College/CUNY Graduate Center)

Thursday April 11, 2013 6-8 PM

University Hall Conference Center, 7^th Floor, Montclair State University

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Prof. Paulicelli will discuss the relationships between Italian fashion and film in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Before the explosion of digital technology, access to fashion for the masses was mediated through cinema and the genre of the fashion film, a phenomenon which continues today.

Drawing on films by Antonioni, Fellini and others, the lecture will illustrate how the marriage between fashion and film launched the modern image of Italy as we know it today. The lecture will include clips and stills from Italian movies.

Selected items from the Queens College Historic Costume Collection will be on display.

Light refreshments will be served.

Musical accompaniment courtesy of students from the John J. Cali School of Music.

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Sponsored and organized by the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies (Department of Spanish and Italian)

Co-sponsored by the Consulate of Italy in Newark, NJ, the Department of Art and Design (Fashion Studies Program), the Department of English(Film Studies Program), and the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America at Montclair State University