Antonio Monda with patients, doctors and students of truth and fake news
At Gemini's conversation with Antonio Monda patients, doctors and students of truth and fake news.
The room Medicinema at the IRCCS Policlinico Gemelli University will host Thursday 21 March, at 16.00, Antonio Monda, writer and lecturer in film at New York University, artistic director of the Rome Film Festival, for a conversation with patients, medici, health professionals and students of truth and fake news.
Participation of Antonio Monda is not accidental because the relationship of respect and cooperation with the Rome Film Festival, whose Medicinema Sala al Policlinico Gemini is one of the locations for two years.
A personal friend of many actors and directors, during the meeting at the Gemelli he tells his publishing project called "10": ten books, one year, dedicated to the decade of 900 and set in New York, where he lives with his wife and children.
The occasion of this special conversation is the release of the seventh book of the "10" "In the devil's territory" (Mondadori).
The project is inevitably intertwined with the cinema, the great passion of his life. Monda converse with the support of cinematographic works sequences (Cabaret, Philadelphia, Dog Day Afternoon) and key passages movies in recent American political history he personally selected for the occasion.
With In the devil's territory, Antonio Monda is confirmed as one of the most international Italian authors, and continues its US literary exploration and New York with a profound book, exciting and sensational current affairs, reconstructing the history of one of most controversial political figures of the past fifty years.
Alexander Sarris is a young New Yorker who has to decide whether to give in to the seductive charm and intelligent evil. It has thirty years, Greek origins and works in politics; more precisely is the assistant Lee Atwater, the infamous "Boogie Man", the spin doctor most feared of America, the man who governs the communication of the Republican Party.
And the 1988 and the United States are convinced that the next president will be another politician of Greek origin, Democrat Michael Dukakis. No one thinks the challenger, the Texan George Bush, can really defeat. surveys, at the beginning of the election campaign, they are unequivocal.
Until it comes into the picture Lee Atwater, that sets an election campaign cynical and ruthless, unscrupulous and violent, to discredit Dukakis shots of innuendo, slander, low blows, falsehood. And thanks to those that would be called today "fake news", Bush recovers in a few months a gap of seventeen percentage points and wins election.