Following announcement is posted by request.

--Moderator, NYHIST-L

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Laura Wittern Keller PhD 
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University at Albany 
and 
The 2007 New York State Archives Researcher of the Year 

will be speaking on 

Freedom of the Screen: The Movie that Shocked New York, 1952 

Monday, April 7, 2008

6:30 p.m. Viewing of The Miracle (40 min)
Followed by lecture and book signing.

Main Theater, Performing Arts Center at the University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, New York

Scripted by Federico Fellini and directed by Roberto Rossellini's -  Il Miracolo (Italy,1948, 40 minutes), is a film that was condemned at the time of its American release by New York's Cardinal Spellman and the Catholic Legion of Decency, and censored by the New York State Motion Picture Division. Anna Magnani plays a simple woman who comes to believe that she is the Virgin Mary after she is impregnated by a homeless man in her Italian village. Part of a trilogy of short films released as L'Amore (Ways of Love in the United States), the film attracted little attention and was a commercial failure in its native Italy, but became the flashpoint of an historic battle over freedom of expression in this country in the early 1950s. 

Visit www.albany.edu/maps for directions to the University at Albany.

Sponsored by the Archives Partnership Trust and the University at Albany.