Angela Dalle Vacche
Professor Emerita
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
- ADVANCE IAC
Overview
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 (1980) and Film Studies (1985) 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; a Leverhulme Distinguished Senior Professorship at the University of London, Birkbeck College; and a Dora Maar Fellowship in Menerbes, France. During the Summer of 2016, she will be lecturing on Cinema and the Museum at the Institute for Marketing and Technology in Lucca, Italy.
Dalle Vacche’s 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 has given guest-lectures in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Currently Dalle Vacche is completing a book titled: Andre Bazin’s Film Theory: Art, Science, Religion, forthcoming in 2018.
Interests
Focuses:
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- Europe
- Inequality and Social Justice
Courses
- LCC-2500: Intro to Film
- LCC-2813: Special Topics in STAC
- LCC-3256: Major Filmmakers
- LCC-3257: Global Cinema
- LCC-3314: Tech of Representation
- LCC-3352: Film Technology
- LCC-3853: Special Topics in Film
- LCC-4102: Senior Thesis
- LCC-4500: Seminar in Film Studies
- LMC-2500: Intro to Film
- LMC-3257: Global Cinema
- LMC-3352: Film Technology
- LMC-4500: Seminar in Film Studies
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
- Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls
Date: 2012
- Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
Date: 2008
- Color, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)
Date: 2006
- Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History
Date: 2002
Presentations
- The Difference of Cinema and Art
Date: 2012
All Publications
Books
- Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls
Date: 2012
- Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
Date: 2008
- Color, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers)
Date: 2006
- Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History
Date: 2002
- Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film
Date: 1996
- The Shapes of History in Italian Cinema
Date: 1992
Presentations
- The Difference of Cinema and Art
Date: 2012