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WEEK 1
JAN 21, 23
Introduction: Cinema, History, Nation.
Screening: Roma città aperta (Rome Open City, Rossellini,
1945)
READINGS: Millicent. Marcus Roma Città Aperta, "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. Bondanella, History of Italian Cinema: "The Neorealist Era:Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism"
WEEK 2
JAN 28, 30
Neo-Realism I: A
Historical Approach. Lecture and class discussion
Screening: Ladri di
Biciclette (Bicycle Thief, De Sica, 1948).
READINGS: Millicent Marcus. "De Sica's Bycicle Thief:
Casting shadows on the visionary city" in Italian film.
WEEK 3
FEBR 4, 6
From Neorealism to Commedia all'Italiana.
Screening: I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street,
1958, Mario Monicelli)
READINGS: P. Bondanella, History of Italian Cinema "The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:Commedia all'italiana-Comedy and Social Criticism"
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.
WEEK 4
FEBR 11, 13
Italian Cinema and the Economic Miracle.
Screening: Le notti di Cabiria (F. Fellini, 1957)
READINGS: P. Bondanella, "La dolce vita, The Art Film Spectacular".in
The Films of Federico Fellini, Cambridge UP, 2002.
Home screening and fim profile 1: La dolce vita (F. Fellini, 1960).
WEEK 5
FEBR 18, 20
Film profile 1 DUE on FEBR. 20
The other side of 'La dolce vita'.
Screening: Mamma
Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962).
READINGS: D. J. Rhodes, Stupendous, Miserable City.
Pasolini's Rome, Minnesota University Press, 2007. Chapter 5
WEEK 6
FEBR. 25,27
Class Discussion on Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema
Screening: L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
READINGS: P. Bondanella History of Italian Cinema "The Neorealist Era:The Break With Neorealism, the Cinema of the Reconstruction in Rossellini and Antonioni, Fellini's Trilogy of Character and Grace; and the Return of Melodrama with Visconti and De Sica".
Home screening and film profile 2: Blow-up (M. Antonioni, 1966).
WEEK 7
MARCH 3, 5
Film Profile 2 DUE on MARCH 5
Class Discussion. Review for Midterm
MARCH 5: MIDTERM
SPRING BREAK MARCH 11-15
WEEK 8
MARCH 17, 19
Italian Cinema in the 70's.
Screening: Il conformista (B. Bertolucci, 1970)
READINGS: M. Marcus, Chapter on Il conformista in Italian
Film.
P. Bondanella, History... "The Golden Age of Italian Cinema:Neorealism's Legacy to a New Generation and the Political Film" .
WEEK 9
MARCH 24, 26
Screening:
Indagine di un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (E. Petri, 1970)
Class Discussion
READINGS: 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
P. Bondanella, History... "Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present".
Home screening and film profile 3: Portiere di notte (The Night Porter, L. Cavani, 1974).
WEEK 10
MARCH 30-APRIL 2
Film profile 3 DUE on April 2
Screening: Roma (F. Fellini, 1974)
Class Discussion
WEEK 11
APRIL 7, 9
MONDAY, h. 18: Roundtable on Fellini's Cinema with F. Burke, F. Capoferri, and C. Ciampaglia. MANDATORY
Towards a Postmodern Cinema.
Screening: Caro
Diario (Nanni Moretti, 1994)
Class Discussion
READINGS: M. Marcus, "Caro Diario and the Cinematic Body
of Nanni Moretti" in After Fellini, John Hopkins University, 2002, pp.
285-299.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS (3) on April 9.
WEEK 12
APRIL 14, 16
The Return of Politics in Italian Cinema.
Screening:
Buongiorno notte (M. Bellocchio, 2004)
READINGS: Carlo Testa, "Film, Literature, and Terrorism:
Mapping Italy's Political Landscape by Cinematic Means", Italica, Vol 84,
n. 4, Winter 2007, pp. 781-798.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS (3-4) on April 16.
Home screening and film profile 4: Non essere cattivo (Don't Be Bad, C. Caligari, 2015).
WEEK 13
APRIL 21, 23
Film profile 4 DUE on April 23
Local, Global and Glocal in Contemporary Italian Cinema.
Screening: Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot (G. Mainetti, 2016). (P. Sorrentino, 2007)
READINGS: P. Bondanella, History... "Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium".
WEEK 14
APRIL 28, 30
Rethinking Cinematic Visuality
A. Ferrente, Selfie (2019).
Class Discussion/Review for Final Exam.