Ital Cinema-Neoreal to Present

Catalog description

This course investigates major Italian films as both aesthetic and cultural objects. It offers an introduction to Italian cinema from the 1940's to the Present, and also to Italian social and cultural history of that time. It introduces major directors, movements, and genres in Italian cinema, focusing on movies that not only are influential masterpieces, but also offer incisive interpretations of their cultural and social milieus, including regional, ethnic and religious diversity; gender diversity; social tensions and class issues. Visconti, De Sica, Fellini, Scola, Bellocchio, Giordana are among the directors we study.