“Ti ho sentito gridare Francesco…”Anna Magnani. Attrice,
diva, icona
June 5-6-7 2019
Università di Torino
This conference aims at tackling through a variety of
perspective the study of an Italian actress and star, whose iconic work has had
a peculiar influence on the history of Italian and international cinema, and on
the historical and social imaginary in general.
Her career in areas such as theater, music, and film, has
spanned several crucial decades of the XX Century, from the 1930s to the early
1970s, molding the persona of an actress and star whose presencewas
instrumental in shaping any context she inhabited, not only through the
exceptional quality of her performances, but also through her ability to embody
historically and socially situated subjectivities, as in the case of Italian
neorealism, of which Anna Magnani is the most recognizable icon.
