Special Topics

Catalog description

This course is designed to offer an overview of the dramatic economic, social and political changes in Italian culture and society that occurred between World War II and the end of the 1960s. The primary themes to be addressed in this course include: Neorealism, “auteur” theory, genre studies, continuing economic and social problems, the economic “boom” (miracle), comedy Italian style and gender relations. You will also learn some basic Italian language by studying several scenes taken from the scripts of the movies.