The first evening in our HITCHCOCKIANA series of presentations and screenings on the master of the thriller, organised in partnership with DAMS Cinema and the “Gli ultracorpi” university group.

The inaugural evening of HITCHCOCKIANA, featuring a presentation of three new publications on the eternal master of the thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, will be on Friday the 19th of November 2010, at 8.30 p.m. in the Bibliomediateca. The three books – Gli uccelli di Alfred Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds) by Danilo Arona (published by Edizioni Unmondoaparte, 2010); Hitchcock: Il volto e la cosa (Hitchcock: The face and the thing) by Beatrice Balsamo (published by Mimesis, 2010) and Hitchcock e la vertigine interpretativa (Hitchcock and dramatic vertigo) by Sandro Fogli (published by Romano, 2010) – will be presented by the authors themselves, who will be joined by Professor Giulia Carluccio for a roundtable discussion which will go over recent publications about this film director.  Introduction by Sonia Del Secco (National Cinema Museum). A screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds will follow.