By TCN News,
New Delhi: AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Department of English and Centre for European and Latin American Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia organized a 2 part Lecture series by Dr. Alan O’Leary, University of Leeds (UK) on “Contemporary Italian Cinema and the ‘Cinepanettone’.
Dr. Alan O’Leary is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds (UK) where he teaches Italian cinema and cultural studies.
He edits the annual Film Issue for the Italianist, co-founded with Millicent Marcus (Yale), and is co-director of the Popular Cultures Research Network (with Stuart Green) and director of the Cultural Studies Research Grouping of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Leeds.
His monograph Tragedia All’italiana on the terrorism of the 1970s in Italian Cinema was published in Italian in 2007 (Angelica Editore) and in a revised English edition in 2011 (Peter Lang). He has also co-edited two volumes on the theme. His monograph on the Italian Christmas film, the ‘cinepanettone’, has been published by Rubbettino (2013). He has also written on the historiography of Italian cinema.
The programme was held on September 5, 2013 at 2 PM onwards in James Beveridge Media Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia.