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Expanded Course Description
To what extent can cinema be an instructive medium to envisage, remember and celebrate forms of resistance against oppression and tyranny? How can films enable us to imagine alternative futures? And how can cinema function as a means towards emancipation for is audiences?
This course will explore the relevance of these questions to the development of cinema in Italy as one of the key cultural practices and most important forms of political contestation of the 20th century.
By introducing students to the history of Italian cinema, the course will focus on some of the major Neorealist films of the postwar period [including Rome Open City and Bicycle Thieves] and on the work of some of the most iconic filmmakers of the European auteur film canon (including Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini). Students will learn that rather than simply being a form of popular entertainments, cinema played a crucial role in Italy’s cultural and political life. They will examine, for example, how in the immediate post-war period Neorealist cinema strived to reveal the social reality of marginalization and hardships that Mussolini’s fascist propaganda and control of the media had concealed for almost two decades. Students will learn how a number of Italian filmmakers made us of cinema as an instrument of social and ideological critique. They will also examine the endeavors of some of these filmmakers to conceive a new cinematic language against the dominant conventions and codes of Hollywood.
ITAL152 is an archetypal Arts and Letters course in that it introduces students to the study of one of the most influential national cinemas in the world and to an understanding of its cultural and political significance beyond its national borders. The focus of the course on the relation between cinematic representation, meaning and social reality emphasizes the importance of visual culture in the formation of both individual and collective identity and strengthens the students’ understanding of and ability to consider critically media culture in our current global society. ITAL 152 is one of two lower division ITAL courses offered in English and will be a "partner" course to ITAL 150, which has A&L group status.
- Wait list is available when course is full
