Description
The course introduces the student to the world of Italian Cinema. The first part of the course will analyze Neorealism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art. The second part will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neorealism and the talent of “new” auteurs such as Fellini, Antonioni, and Visconti. The last part of the course will be devoted to the cinema from 1970’s to the present in order to pay attention to the latest developments of the Italian industry. The course is a general analysis of the history of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using film as “decoded historical evidence”. The screenings will include films of the Italian directors of the “cinema d’autore”.
