PLEASE NOTE THAT CHANGES IN THE
SCHEDULE COULD BE MADE BY THE INSTRUCTOR
WEEK 1
Introduction: Cinema, History, Nation. Thinking about Film,
History and Narratives
Screening: Roma Città Aperta(Rome Open City, Rossellini,
1945)
READING: Millicent. Marcus, "Introduction" to
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism, UP Princeton, 1986 pp. 3-29;
Rossellini's Open City: The founding, pp. 33-53 .
P. Brunette,
"Open City" in Roberto Rossellini, University of California Press, 1996,
pp. 41-60.
WEEK 2
Neo-Realism I: A
Historical Approach. Lecture and class discussion -- QUIZ I
Screening: Ladri di
Biciclette(Bicycle Thief, De Sica, 1948).
READING: Millicent Marcus. "De Sica's Bycicle Thief:
Casting shadows on the visionary city" in Italian film.
A. Bazin, De Sica
Metteur en Scène, in What is cinema, vol. 2, University of California Press,
2004, pp 61-68 (available on line)
WEEK 3
QUIZ I
Neo-Realism II: An
Aesthetic Approach. Lecture and class discussion
Screening: Riso Amaro
(Bitter Rice, De Santis, 1949).
Reading: Millicent Marcus, "De Santis's Bitter Rice. A
neorealist hybrid"
WEEK 4
Screening: I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street,
1958, Mario Monicelli)
Home screening: La dolce vita (F.Fellini, 1960)
Readings: P. Ginsborg, "The Economic Miracle: Rural
Exodus and Social Transformation. 1958-1963" in History of Contemporary
Italy. Penguin Books, 1990, pp. 210-253; 499-508.
P. Bondanella, "Beyond neorealism: character and
narrative form in early Fellini from Luci del varieta to La dolce vita" in
P. Bondanella, The Films of Federico Fellini, Cambridge UP, 2002.
P. Bondanella, "La dolce vita, The Art Film Spectacular".in
The Films of Federico Fellini, Cambridge UP, 2002.
WEEK 5
Lecture and class
discussion.
Screening: Mamma
Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962).
QUESTIONNAIRE DUE
Reading: D. J. Rhodes, Stupendous, Miserable City.
Pasolini's Rome, Minnesota University Press, 2007. Chapter 5
WEEK 6
QUIZ 2
Class Discussion.
Screening: Deserto Rosso (1964). Michelangelo Antonioni.
Reading: Marcus’
Chapter on Deserto Rosso in Italian Film...
WEEK 7
Class Discussion-Review for Midterm
W: MIDTERM
WEEK 8
Screening B.
Bertolucci's Il conformista (1970)
Reading: M. Marcus, Chapter on Il conformista in Italian
Film...
Class Discussion.
WEEK 9:
Screening:
Indagine di un Cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Petri, 1970)
Class Discussion
Wed: QUIZ 3
Reading:
M. Marcus, Chapter on Investigation
Mikel J Koven, What is giallo?in La dolce morte. Vernacular
Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, Scarecrow Press, 2006, pp. 1-18
WEEK 10
Screening: C’eravamo
tanto amati (Ettore Scola, 1974)
Class Discussion
/Oral Presentations
Reading: Marcus, Chapter on C'eravamo tanto amati in
Italian film...
F. Jameson,
"Postmodernism and Consumer Society", in The Cultural Turn, Verso, 2009, pp.1-20, 121
WEEK 11
Screening: Caro
Diario (Nanni Moretti, 1994)
Class Discussion/ Oral Presentations
Reading: M. Marcus, "Caro Diario and the Cinematic Body
of Nanni Moretti" in After Fellini, John Hopkins University, 2002, pp.
285-299.
WEEK 12:
Screening:
Buongiorno note (M. Bellocchio, 2004)
Class Discussion/
Oral Presentations
Reading: Carlo Testa, "Film, Literature, and Terrorism:
Mapping Italy's Politcal Landscape by Cinematic Means", Italica, Vol 84,
n. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 781-798 (JSTOR)
WEEK 13:
Screening: Il
divo (P. Sorrentino, 2007)
Class
Discussion/Oral presentations
Reading: handout: A discussion on postneorealism.
Week 14:
Screening: Suburra (S.Sollima, 2015)
Class Discussion/Review for Final
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Brunette, Roberto
Rossellini. Cambridge UP 9780520200531
P. Ginsborg , History
of Contemporary Italy. Penguin 9780140124965
P. Bondanella, The
Films of Federico Fellini. Cambridge UP 978-0521575737
P. Sorlin, Italian
National Cinema. Routledge 9780415116985
J.D. Rhodes ,Stupendous
Miserable City. Minnesota UP 978-0816649303
F. Jameson, The
Cultural Turn. Verso 9781859848760
M. Marcus, After
Fellini. National CInema.... J. Hopkins UP 9780801868474
M. Marcus, Italian
Film in the light of Neorealism. Princeton UP 978-0691102085