What’s in a Name? Lorca, Cinema, and the Allure of Personality
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Federico BonaddioKing's College London
- Location
- Bush House, Strand Campus, London
- Organisation
- King's College London
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About this talk
In this Valedictory Lecture, Federico Bonaddio will reflect on the question of (im)personality as it relates to the poetry of Federico García Lorca and to academic methodology. He will connect his work on Lorca to his research on Spanish cinema, showing how Lorca's fundamental interest in human life resonates in his forthcoming book on films made during Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Across the lecture, he will consider tensions between human and aesthetic concerns in art; between popular and experimental forms; and between history and art. He will also explore the relevance of (auto)biography to our understanding of both the object of study and the motivations that lead us to study it in the first place.
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