The Lecture below has been canceled - updated on May 17th, 2010

The Italian Program at the University of South Florida
Presents a Special Event:

“TV Drama in the Dramatized Italy. Family and Mafia, Religion and History

Professor Milly Buonanno, University La Sapienza of Rome
7:00PM on Friday, May 21, 2010
L’Unione Italiana in Tampa’s Historic Ybor City

Drinks and dinner (optional) will be available in the club’s cantina at 6:00PM

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and the Department of World Languages at the University of South Florida

Milly Buonanno is a Professor of Theory of Television in the Department of Sciences of Communication at the University La Sapienza of Rome. She has widely written in the field of television studies, gender studies, journalism, and is the founder of sociological studies of television drama in Italy. She is the member of the editorial board of several academic journals in Europe and in North and South America. She is a pioneer of the discipline of cultural studies in Italy and the founder of the Osservatorio sulla fiction italiana (Observatory on Italian Television Fiction). She directs the School of Television Scriptwriting based at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Film School) in Milan.

She is the author of numerous books among which Indigeni si diventa. Locale e globale nella serialità televisiva (Milan 1999), Le formule del racconto televisivo (Milan 2002), Realtà multiple (Naples 2004), Visibilità senza potere. Le sorti progressive ma non magnifiche delle donne giornaliste italiane (Naples 2005). On her last book, The Age of Television, scholars have commented as follows:

“Some say that the age of television is over. If that is so, then the medium has found its ideal historian and critic in Milly Buonanno” (Toby Miller)
“It is certainly the case that this new work now becomes one of the fundamental texts in television studies” (Horace Newcomb)
“I guess that leaves me in a Mark-Anthony sort of position: I come not to bury television but to praise Milly Buonanno” (John Hartley)

*This event is free of charge and open to the public.*