Department of Foreign Languages
JFT 414 - SUNY
The State University of New York
New Paltz, NY 12561
Phone (845) 257-3480
 
 

Course # 59375/01 ITALIAN CINEMA – FALL 2003
Lectures/Seminars T & H 10:00-11:15 a.m. – HUM 313 & LC 112
Film Showings H 6:30 p.m. – LC 104
Dr. Giorgio Melloni JFT 510 – ext. 3504 – mellonig@newpaltz.edu
Office Hours MW 4:00-5:00 p.m. - H 12:00-2:00 p.m. and by appointment
 
 

COURSE CALENDAR - FALL 2003
[N.B. The film analysis referred to below is always of the previous week’s film]


Week  1:  Aug. 26, 28.
(TH)     Course Introduction
(H)     Film    Cabiria [1914] B&W - Giovanni Pastrone
 

Week  2:  Sept. 2, 4.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Background of Italian film from the silent era to the Fascist period
(H)     Film    The Iron Crown [1941]  B&W - Alessandro Blasetti


Week  3:  Sept. 9, 11.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  From the period of the white telephones to the origins of neorealism
(H)     Film    Rome Open City  [1945] B&W - Roberto Rossellini


Week  4:  Sept. 16, 18.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film. Roberto Rossellini and neorealism
(H)     Film    Bicycle Thief  [1948] B&W - Vittorio De Sica


Week  5:  Sept. 23, 25.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion  Analysis of Film.  Vittorio De Sica and neorealism


Week  6:  Sept. 30; Oct. 2.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  From neorealism to Comedy Italian Style
(H)  Film    Big Deal on Madonna Street [1958] B&W - Mario Monicelli


Week  7:  Oct. 9.   MID-TERM EXAM = OCTOBER 9th
(H) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film. The break with neorealism: Federico Fellini
(H)     Film    La dolce vita  [1960] B&W - Federico Fellini


Week  8:  Oct. 14, 16.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Films.  A decisive decade.  An example of pathetic and satirical “Commedia all’Italiana” by  Monicelli
(H)     Film    Joyful Laughs [1960] B&W - Mario Monicelli


Week  9:  Oct. 21, 23.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  Myth and Marxism: Pier Paolo Pasolini
(H)     Film    Mamma Roma [1962] B&W - Pier Paolo Pasolini


Week 10:  Oct. 28, 30.  Extra Credit Paper on a Novel due Oct. 30th
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  The Ancient Rome in Fellini
(H)     Film    Satyricon [1969] C - Federico Fellini


Week 11:  Nov. 4, 6.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  The Modern Rome according to Fellini
(H)  Film    Roma [1972] C – Federico Fellini


Week 12:  Nov. 11, 13.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film. History, politics and ideology in the contemporary Italian film
(H) Film In the Name of the Pope-King [1977] C – Luigi Magni


Week 13:  Nov. 18, 20.
(MW) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  The contemporary scene and the new Italian comedy: Ettore Scola
(H)  Film    A Special day  [1977] C – Ettore Scola


Week 14:  Nov. 25.   PAPER DUE NOVEMBER 25th
(T) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film.  Italian Cinema in the 1980’s.


Week 15:  Dec. 2, 4.
(TH) Lecture & Discussion Analysis of Film. The Italian Cinema enters the third millennium.

(H) Life is Beautiful [1997] C – Roberto Benigni


 
FINAL EXAM:
Thursday, December 18th
8.30-10.30 a.m.
 
 

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