Week 1. From Silent cinema to Neorealism: reinventing Rome
Exoticism, power and antiquity: Rome in silent cinema
Rome(s) in Fascist cinema
The foundation of Cinecittà
Neorealism: the rebirth or Rome and Italy
Week 2. Roman screenscape during the Economic Miracle
Americans in Rome, and Rome in America
Fellini’s Dolce Vita
Rome’s peculiar economic boom
Filmgoing in Rome in the 1950s
Week 3. The 1960s: center and periphery
The creation of cinematic places
Antonioni’s alienation in Rome
Pasolini’s paradigmatic city
The former Jewish Ghetto of Rome
Week 4. Politics, violence, memory and mourning
Mafia and organized crime in Rome
Fantozzi: the average Italian man
Scola’s history of Italy
Italian crime films and terrorism
Week 5: Contemporary Rome
Postmodernity and Rome
Center and Periphery in contemporary Italian cinema
Film theaters in 21th century
Cinetourism