Week 1.
Introduction to the course.
Screening: To Rome with Love (W. Allen, 2012)
Readings:
1) David B. Clark “Previewing the Cinematic City” in D. Clark (ed). The Cinematic City. London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 1-18. (Library Reserve)
2) Richard Wrigley (ed). Cinematic Rome. Leicester UK: Troubador Publishing. 2008. introduction. Library Reserve.
3) David Forgacs. “ Film Culture in Rome”, Film Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Spring 2008), pp. 40-45 (jstor)
Week 2. .
Fascist Rome
Screening: Scipione l’africano (1937) dir. Carmine Gallone
Readings:
1) Ricci, Steven. Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943 (University of California Press, 2008), pp. 95-104. (ebook).
2) Reich, Jacqueline. "Mussolini at the Movies: Fascism, Film and Culture," in Re-Viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 1922-1943 (Indiana University Press, 2002), pp. 3-29.
Week 3,
Neorealist Rome
Screening: Umberto D. (1952) dir. Vittorio De Sica
Required full viewing at home: Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945); Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1946). (Library)
Readings:
Shiel, Mark. “Imagined and Built Spaces in the Rome of Neorealism.” In Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley, 27-42. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
Week 4.
Americans in Rome
Screening: Roman Holiday (1953) dir. William Wyler
Clips from: Three Coins in the Fountain (Jean Negulesco, 1955); When in Rome (Mark Steven Johnson, 2010).
Readings:
1) Shandley, Robert. “How Rome Saved Hollywood.” In Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley, 53-62. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
Week 5
Romans and US
Screening: Un Americano a Roma (1954) dir. Steno
Take-home assignment I DUE .
Week 6,
Fellini's Rome 1
Screening, Lo sceicco bianco (F. Fellini)
required full viewing at home of La dolce vita (1960); Clips from: Fellini Satyricon (1969
Readings:
1) Gordon, Mary. “Rome: The Visible City.” Salmagundi 124 (1999): 79-94. (jstor)
2) Harcourt, Peter. “The Secret Life of Federico Fellini.” Film Quarterly 19 (1966): 4-19. (jstor)
Week 7 Fellini's Rome 2
Screening, Fellini's Roma (1972)
Readings:
1) Paul, Joanna. “Rome Ruined and Fragmented: The Cinematic City in Fellini-Satyricon and Roma.” In Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley, 109-121. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
week 8
MIDTERM -- GROUP PROJECT TOPIC DUE
The Roman Borgata
Screening: Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Readings:
1) Keala J. Jewell, “Pasolini: Deconstructing the Roman Palimpsest” in SubStance, Vol. 16, No. 2, Issue 53: Contemporary Italian Thought (1987), pp. 55-66 (jstor)
2) Rhodes, John David. A brief history of Roman Periphery. Stupendous, Miserable City. (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
3) Rhodes, J. D. ibidem, Chapter on Accattone
Week 9,
Pasolini's Rome 2.
Excerpts from Mamma Roma, La ricotta, La terra vista dalla luna, La sequenza del fiore di Carta
Readings. Rhodes J,D, chapters on movies discussed in class.
Week 10
Modernist Rome
Screening: L’Eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Class discussion and Group Presentation I
Readings:
1) Benci, Jacopo. “Michelangelo’s Rome: Towards an Iconology of L’Eclisse.” In Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley, 63-85. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
Week 11,
Periphery and Center.
Discussions and Group Presentation 2
take-home questions/answers 2 DUEtake-home questions/answers 2 DUE
Ostia.
Group Presentation 3
Clips from S. Citti, Ostia; C. Caligari, Amore tossico, N. Moretti, Caro diario
Week 12.
Rome in the Third Millenium
Screening. Le fate ignoranti (2001) dir. Ferzan Őzpetek.
Group Presention 4.
Readings:
1) Lesley Cladwell. “The Consistency of Location” in R. Wrigley (ed) Cinematic Rome, pp. 121-132.
2) Luca Caminati. “Filming Coming Communities: Ferzan Ozpetek’s Le Fate Ignoranti”. Italica, Vol 85, No. 4, (Winter, 2008), pp. 455-464 (jstor)
Week 13. TODAY Rome(s)
P. Sorrentino, La grande bellezza. (2013)
TBD
Week 14 Today Rome(s). Part II
Sacro Gra (G. ROSI)
TBD
Conclusions and review for Final Exam
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