John Freccero on ‘Blow Up’

John Freccero Lecture Series

John Freccero on Blow Up
The Lecture that Changed My Life

A lecture by
Millicent Marcus, Yale University

In ENGLISH

Millicent Marcus is the Sarai Ribicoff Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University. She specializes in Italian culture from the interdisciplinary perspectives of literature, history, and film. A leading scholar of Boccaccio, she is the author of An Allegory of Form: Literary Self-Consciousness in the Decameron (Stanford French and Italian Studies, 1979). Her other monographs include Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton, 1986), Filmmaking by the Book: Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation (Johns Hopkins, 1993), After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins, 2002), and Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz (University of Toronto, 2007). She is also the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on her fields of interest. Because literacy in the 21st century must be broadened to include the mass media as well as the written text, she brings a cultural studies approach to both her teaching and research.

The John Freccero Lecture Series, co-sponsored and co-organized by NYU’s Department of Italian Studies and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, honors the memory of Professor John Freccero, one of the most influential figures in the field of Italian Studies. A world-renowned scholar of Dante, among other subjects, Professor Freccero, after teaching at Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, Yale University, and Stanford University, was Professor of Italian Studies at New York University from 1992 to 2015, where his intellectual and educational vision was instrumental in the founding and growth of our Department of Italian Studies. The John Freccero Lecture Series is supported by a generous gift from Dr. Thomas Bellezza and Mr. John Jensen.