COML 080 - Intro to Italian Cinema:From Neorealism to the Nineties

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Kirkham. The course will consist of a broad and varied sampling of classic Italian films from WWII to the present. We will consider the works which typify directors and major trends through five decades of filmmaking and will trace a certain stylistic and thematic development from WWII on, pointing out both the continuity of the tradition, and exceptions to it, in an attempt to define the art of Italian film. Units will include "Neorealism: The Cinematic Revolution,"Self-Reflexivity and Meta-cinema," "Fascism and War Revisite and "Postmodernism, or the Death of the Cinema." One of the aims of the course will be to make us aware of the expectations that Hollywood has implanted in us:that films be action-packed wish-fulfillment fantasies. Italian cinema will challenge us to re-examine and revise the very narrow conception that Americans have of the cinematic medium. Classes will include close visual analysis of films using video clips and slides. Students will be required to attend weekly screenings of the films. The films will be in Italian with English subtitles. There will be 12 in all, including works by Fellini, Antonioni, De Sica, Visconti, Pasolini, Rossellini, Scola, and Benigni.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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