Giuliana Bruno is internationally known for her research on the intersections of the visual arts, architecture, film, and media. Her latest book is Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014. Her seminal work Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso, 2002) won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award in Culture and History - a prize awarded to "the world's best book on the moving image" - and has provided new directions for visual studies. Atlas was also honored as Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association, and named a Book of the Year in 2003 by the Guardian. Her recent book Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts (MIT Press, 2007) has been translated in Europe and Asia. For Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (Princeton University Press, 1993), a journey through modernity and cultural memory, she won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual award for best book in film studies. Off Screen (Routledge, 1988) was devoted to women and film, and Immagini allo schermo (Rosenberg & Sellier, 1991) was named one of the 50 Best Books of the First 100 Years of Film History.

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Mark Linga - listinfo@mit.edu - [617] 253-4680

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From the filmmakers who brought you "Ciao America" comes the final chapter in the Italian-American immigrant saga. Twenty years in the making, the script for "Miracle of Ferragosto" represents the dream project of the two Italian-American brothers from Boston. Join them and actor Eddie Malavarca as they travel to Italy to make their dream a reality with "The Making of a Miracle".
 

Part Documentary, part Meta-Film, part Supernatural Thriller,  "The Making of a Miracle" will follow the filmmakers on their magical pilgrimage to Italy in a desperate Hail Mary attempt to turn their script into a film. As the camera rolls, the development process unfolds, punctuated by stories from the Filmmakers about their own personal "miracles" and the encounters with divine intervention that have kept them going against all odds. 

Support the Filmmakers in their sentimental journey back to La Bell' Italia and help them to make the Leap of Faith necessary for "The Making of a Miracle".

Click here to see the Kickstarter campaign

Theme-based laboratories, such as music, theater, art, dance, and poetry blended in "active learning", will foster a yearning for deeper "discovery" of  the Italian language.

Start date: Saturday October 17th 2015 through Saturday December 19th 2015 1pm-2pm

Location: 37 Water Street, Suite 4, Wakefield, MA

Contact info: Gisella DiPaola, gdipaola@bankeagle.com
Phone #: 617-833-9661 or 617-939-4216

Visit our web-site for additional information at www.casit.org or CASIT Facebook page www.facebook.com/casitinc

The Accademia Italiana della Cucina was born - naturally at the dinner table, as is often the case with important things - when a group of friends, united at dinner on the 29th of July of 1953, heard and agreed with the idea which Orio Vergani had long been nurturing: that of founding an academy with the task of safeguarding, together with the traditions of Italian cuisine, the culture of the civilisation of the table, lively and active expression of the entire Nation.