The Desert Room: From Michelangelo Antonioni to New Media

Activity Type: 
Lecture
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Presenter: 
DOMIETTA TORLASCO (Minnesota)
Date: 
Friday, February 8, 2013 - 12:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
501 Cathedral of Learning
Contact Person: 
David Pettersen
Contact Phone: 
412-624-6564
Contact Email: 
dpetter@pitt.edu

Domietta Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory and practice and is currently an Associate Professor
of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where she is also affiliated with the
Screen Cultures Program. She is the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian
Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the digital film Antigone’s Noir (2008-09). Her second book, The
Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in
2013.

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Film Studies Program
World Regions: 
Europe
Western Europe