How to Face a Tiger. Three Encounters in Italian Cinema

From the speaker: "Three encounters with tigers depicted by Italian directors of the XX century will allow us to think about orientalism in Italian cinema and media, to look at filmmaking styles of travel films, and, finally, to talk about blue screen backgrounds, zoofilia, and my childhood hero!"

Luca Caminati is Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is co-editor with James Leo Cahill of the collection Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice (2021). His new book, Traveling Auteurs. The Geopolitics of Post-War Italian Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) investigates travel films of Italian directors in the Global South. He’s currently at work on a new project titled “The Italian Anticolonial Film Archive: Global Counterculture (1955-1975).”

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