This edition: Before the Revolution
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Original tape date: November 16, 1987. First aired: November 16, 1987.Before the Revolution (1964/Italy; 115 min., b&w, sound); Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli. Restless youth in 1960s Parma grapple with love, death, and Communism.
On this episode of Cinema Then, Cinema Now, Professor Jerry Carlson (College of Staten Island) sits down with Professor Pellegrino A. D'Acierno (Hofstra University; Author, For a Dangerous Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Italian and Italian American Studies), and Professor Robert Kolker (University of Maryland; Author, Cinema of Loneliness) to discuss Bernardo Bertolucci's Before the Revolution (1964). Other topics of discussion include:
Career of Bernardo Bertolucci
1960s European filmmaking
Marxist critique of cinema
Metatextual and metacinematic elements
Recorded on November 16th, 1987 at the Borough Manhattan Community College Media Center.
This program was digitized, captioned, and made accessible in 2021 as part of "Uncovering CUNY'S Audiovisual Heritage," a preservation project funded by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Guest List
Prof. Jerry Carlson Professor of Film Studies, City College of New York
Pellegrino A. D'Acierno Professor, Hofstra University, Author, For a Dangerous Pedagogy: A Manifesto for Italian and Italian American Studies
Robert Kolker Writer, New Yorker Magazine
