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Focuses on different aspects of regional cultures in Italy. Emphasis is on local lifestyles, literatures, and cinematography. Regional cultures and historic background are analyzed and compared through class demonstrations and cultural artifacts. P-ITA 216 or POI. 325. Italian Neorealism in Films and Novels. ( 3) Designed to provide an understanding of the history, philosophy, politics, artistic movements and civic renaissance of postwar Italian life. By discussing the most important films, novels, short stories, essays, poetry and discussions of the time, students discover and learn about Neorealism. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Study of modern Italian society through the analysis of films from the 1950s to the present. Taught in Italian. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Study of the major developments of modern Italian cinema. Full-length feature films by Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Moretti Salvatores, Guiseppe Tornatore, Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, and other Italian filmmakers are studied and discussed from different perspectives. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Introduction to Italian medieval literature and culture through a selected, critical reading of Dante's masterpiece and other medieval texts. Introduces students to the intellectual and social context of the Italian Middle Ages by relating the texts to the cultural, political, social, and philosophical concerns of the period. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Examination of the culture of the Italian Renaissance. Topics include the ideal of the artist, the ideal of the courtier, the epic genre, the political debates in Florence, the figure of the artist/scientist Leonardo da Vinci, the figure of the navigator, and daily life in Italian cities studied from different social classes and perspectives. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Students examine cinematic adaptations of literary works by reading closely the literary texts and viewing their visual counterparts. Students investigate the strategies of adaptation, as well as the criteria by which films based on novels can be evaluated as works of art in their own right. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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An examination of the birth and development of the Italian Novella tradition from the Novellino to Luigi Da Porto's La Giulietta. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Study of selected Italian Renaissance plays and the theatrical space. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Study of representative modern Italian plays from Goldoni to Dario Fo. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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Loved, feared and reviled: the Italian communist experience in cinema, literature and theatre. P-ITA 216 or POI.
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