ANGELA DALLE VACCHE Georgia Institute of Technology |
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A specialist in the intersection of aesthetic theory and film history, Angela Dalle Vacche was born in Venice, Italy and came to the United States in 1978. She has graduate degrees in American Studies and in Film Studies from Mount Holyoke College and the University of Iowa. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Travel Grant, a Mellon Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio Grant, and a Leverhulme Distinguished Professorship at the University of London, Birkbeck College, History of Art. Her retrospective: Italian Silent Divas: Passion and Defiance, for the 2000 New York Film Festival was voted as "Best Event Of The Year" by Art Forum. Dalle Vacche regularly works with the Cineteca di Bologna, The Nederlands Film Museum, Anthology Film Archive in New York, and DAMS/Gorizia in Italy. She has also lectured in Dublin, Vienna, Paris, and Portugal. While teaching at
Vassar
College, Yale University, and Georgia Institute of Technology, she has become a leading voice in Italian film studies, an internationally recognized specialist in European cinema, and she is highly regarded for having opened the field of film studies to the history of art. Dalle Vacche is the director of LCC-IFS, a summer film studies program between the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Udine in Italy. Under the auspices of CINEMA TECH, every year she organizes film series for the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture of Ivan Allen College at the Georgia Institute of Technology: the African, the French, and the Japanese Film Series. |
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| Books: |
| 1- The Body in The Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, Princeton University Press, 1992 |
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| 2- Cinema and Painting: How Film Is Used in Film, The University of Texas Press, 1996 |
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| 3- Diva: Defiance, Passion, and Early Italian Cinema The University of Texas Press, 2008 |
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| Anthologies: |
| 1- The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History, Depth of Field Series, Rutgers University Press, 2002 |
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| 2- Color in Film, A Focus Reader, edited with Brian Price, Routledge 2006 |
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