ITAL 231 New Italian Cinema: From Paradiso to Gomorra
This dynamic and participatory course explores contemporary Italian Cinema from its so-called ""disastrous"" death in the 1970s, through its supposed rebirth in the mid-1990s, and into the present moment. Utilizing a set of interdisciplinary analytical frameworks, students will engage in the close examination of select filmic texts including, but not limited to, Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1989), Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (2008), Matteo Garrone's Gomorra (2008), Pif's la Mafia uccide solo d'estate (2013), Alice Rohrwacher's Le Meraviglie (2014) and Andrea Segre's L'ordine delle cose (2017). Students will learn to identify the key themes of each text and techniques filmmakers used to create them. They will also develop an ability to appropriately situate each text within the frame of the vital crises animating Italian society and shaping its cultural production while rooting the experiences of the Bel Paese within broader global cultural trends. Taught in English.
Cross Listed Courses
ITAL 231 &
MDIA 231