Film screening of "Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence" Q/A with Director Valerio Ciriaci, a Transnational Film Series
Storyline: While her life remains partly enigmatic - she left behind no letters or diaries, and only a few photographs - her work has recently drawn renewed interest after decades of obscurity. A leading figure in the golden age of Neapolitan silent cinema, Elvira created around 60 feature films that blended popular culture with an authentic lens on city life, captivating audiences from Naples to the Little Italy suburbs spread around the United States. With the advent of sound and increasing pressure from Fascist censorship, she abandoned filmmaking in 1930. Her work faded into silence, and much of her output was lost.—Cinecitta News
This interdisciplinary series centers transnational and intersectional perspectives and aligns closely with university-wide initiatives connected to Women’s History Month, disability studies, Black Europe and Postmigrant Europe, and global cultural engagement.
Series Organizers
- Elisabetta Sanino D’Amanda – Italian Studies
- Rebecca Schaefer – German Studies
Co-sponsors: Conable Chair in Global Futures Program, Kern Chair in School of Communication, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, School of Film and Animation, and School of Individualized Studies
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