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Academic Year 2004/2005
Italian Cinema After 1968
ITAL 250 SP
This course, conducted in Italian, takes as its subject Italian cinema after the watershed year of 1968. We begin with several films of Pier Paolo Pasolini as well as other "political" filmmakers like Elio Petri, Gillo
Pontecorvo,
Francesco Rosi, and Lina Wertmuller. We will examine the works of auteurs like Gianni Amelio, Francesca Archibugi, Marco Ferreri, Gabriele Salvatores as well as the work of "the master of horror," Dario Argento. How do
the
works of these filmmakers both reflect social change and engender it? How do the directors' formal choices inform their ideological positions?
MAJOR READINGS
PROPOSED VIEWING:
Amelio, Gianni. Lamerica, Porte aperte
Archibugi, Francesca. Verso sera, Il grande cocomero.
Argento, Dario. L¿uccello dale piume di cristallo, Opera, La sindrome di Stendhal
Ferreri,
Marco. Dillinger e¿ morto, La grande
abbuffata, Storia di Piera
Moretti, Nanni. Ecce Bombo, Palombella rossa, Aprile, La stanza del figlio
Pasolini, Pier Paolo. (Il vangelo secondo Matteo), Teorema, Appunti per un¿Orestiede africana
Pontecorvo,
Gillo. (La battaglia di Algeri),
Queimada
Rosi, Francesco. Il caso Mattei, Cristo si e¿ fermato a Eboli
Salvatores, Gabriele. Marrakesh Express, (Meditteraneo), Puerto Escondido, Nirvana
Required Texts:
Ginsborg, Paul. Italy and its
Discontents: Family, Civil Society, a
nd State, 1980-2001.
Course Reader.
Levi, Carlo. Cristo si e¿ fermato a Eboli.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course will show films in the original and without subtitles. It is intended for students who have spent at least one semester studying abroad in Italy, though may be appropriate for some students who have completed
Italian 221.
No prior
knowledge of formal film analysis is required, but we will work on formal skills throughout the semester. Students who have no prior experience in formal film analysis are encouraged to purchase Louis Giannetti's
Understanding Movies, a text in English th
at will help ground her/him in the elements of formal analysis, and undertake the self-test BEFORE the beginning of the course. (Please contact professor at enerenberg@wesleyan.edu.) As a class, and using an Italian
text, we will employ appropriate terms
in our conversations in Italian.
There is a screening session scheduled for Tuesday nights that lasts three hours. Each week, one entire film, as well as parts of others, will be shown. All students must see the
films and related clips before cla
ss on Wednesdays. It will not be possible to have all the films available on Reserve.
The instructor will use the electronic waitlist, all students seeking enrollment are encouraged to list the course as a
request.
Students not attending th
e first class meeting will be dropped.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RLAN
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
ITAL221
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Nerenberg,Ellen
- Times: ...W.F. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK302;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 28)
- SR. major: 0 Jr. major: 0
- SR. non-major: 8 Jr. non-major: 14 SO: 6 FR: 0
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Reading Non-Verbal Texts
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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005
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