{"id":7937,"date":"2017-10-04T12:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2017-10-04T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:14:03","slug":"congratulations-to-luca-di-gregorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/10\/04\/congratulations-to-luca-di-gregorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Luca Di Gregorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department\u00a0of Modern Languages<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0delighted to announce that Luca Di Gregorio\u00a0has been awarded\u00a0a\u00a0PhD in Italian, defending a thesis\u00a0entitled \u2018The Return of the Real in Postmillenial Italy: Italian Lacanianism and New Realist Trends\u2019, completed under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/sforza-tarabochia.html\">Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Luca&#8217;s thesis identifies\u00a0a coherent and consistent Italian cultural phenomenon which he\u00a0calls the \u2018return of the Real\u2019. This, Luca\u00a0claims, is characterised primarily\u00a0by a resurgence of interest by scholars and clinicians in Lacan\u2019s teachings (Italian Lacanianism), especially his notion of the \u2018Real\u2019, and a return of realist trends in the arts and the media.<\/p>\n<p>The notion of the \u2018Real\u2019, as received by contemporary Italian Lacanians, enables Luca\u00a0to understand early 21st-century Italian realist trends not only in aesthetic terms, but also as an ethical undertaking. Luca contends that, according to contemporary Italian Lacanianism, the issue at stake in post-millennial realist art is not so much the depiction of reality or its manipulation, but rather the \u2018Real\u2019 of the untamed and pervasive jouissance that no longer encounter limits.<\/p>\n<p>He exemplifies his theory\u00a0in\u00a0three case studies: the documentary <em>Videocracy &#8211; Basta apparire<\/em> (Gandini, 2009); the film <em>Reality<\/em> (Garrone, 2012); and the TV series <em>In Treatment<\/em> (Costanzo, 2013\u20132016). In his\u00a0thesis, Luca\u00a0addresses the \u2018return of the Real\u2019 as a broad cultural phenomenon, through the analysis of its theoretical background (i.e. contemporary Italian Lacanianism and the Lacanian notion of the Real) and its emergence in the new realist trends of postmillennial Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Di Gregorio.<\/p>\n<p>Further information on the PhD in Italian is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/research-italian.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/postgraduate\/research-italian.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Department\u00a0of Modern Languages\u00a0is\u00a0delighted to announce that Luca Di Gregorio\u00a0has been awarded\u00a0a\u00a0PhD in Italian, defending a thesis\u00a0entitled \u2018The Return of the Real in Postmillenial Italy: Italian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/10\/04\/congratulations-to-luca-di-gregorio\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":7943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}