CAMS 224 - Postmodern Italian Cinema and Television

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Wellesley College

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Viano NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Ever since media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi exemplified the dangers of media fascism to the world, studying the cinema and television of Italy's Second Republic (1992 onwards) offers rewards that extend well beyond Italian Studies. Against the background of Italy's neoconservative television programming, this course explores both mainstream and art cinema production around the dawn of the third millennium. From sex comedy to intellectual cinema; from fantastic re-visitation of the accursed decades of the 1960s and 1970s to neorealist epigones; from a typically underrated woman's film on the Sicilian Mafia to a man's anatomy of melancholy turned hypnotic cinema; the films in this course introduce students to the postmodern condition in Italy, and in the Western world, while mapping paths of conformity and resistan ce. Students may register for eitheITAS 242 or CAMS 224 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: CAMS 101 and CAMS 135/ARTS 165, CAMS 138/ARTS 108 or CAMS 139/ARTS 109. Current majors exempted. For non-CAMS majors, CAMS 101 is recommended. Distribution: Arts, Music, Theatre, Film, Video Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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www.wellesley.edu

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(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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