ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
CULTURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
Rethinking History. Italian Society through the Centuries
Ripensare la storia. La società italiana attraverso i secoli
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| 2017/2018 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Riccardo Donati |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to give the students the historical, cultural and critical instruments that are necessary to analyze the Italian Contemporary Culture. The relationships between literature, cinema and society will be put in evidence and discussed together with the students in order to provide them with a wider idea of what Italian culture is today.
By the end of the semester the students will be able to understand what are the elements that can be considered original to contemporary Italian culture and to identify their origin in relation to the socio-historical-economical evolution of the country during the period between the unification and nowadays.
By the end of this course students should be able to:
a) analyze different works of contemporary Italian cinematic and literary texts from a literary, historical and sociological point of view;
b) gain a better understanding of properties shared by both art forms;
c) discuss the idea of Italian national identity, providing insight into major cultural and socio-political issues of modern Italy. a) an understanding of the style and of the cultural background of the writers studied in the course.
Program
This course will examine a selection of post-1945 Italian films and novels, by internationally acclaimed directors (Rossellini, Fellini, De Sica, Pasolini) and writers (Morante, Corti), who began to question the nature of national identity through the Centuries, from the Middle Ages to the present. By following significant variations of this theme in the postwar cultural production, students will explore major aspects of Italian cinema, literature, history and society. The course is interdisciplinary and uses critical methods pertinent to the media involved and to lead students to question assumptions about both cinema and literature.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The course aims at providing students with a firm understanding of the literary, cultural and historical scene of Twentieth-Century Italy. During the course students will acquire the necessary linguistic and critical tools to analyse works of literature and cinema, discuss literary works and movies using the correct terminology, and be encouraged to make autonomous judgments. Moreover, the course wishes to stimulate an open-minded approach to recent Italian cultural history.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
* Maria Corti, L'ora di tutti (any edition)
* Elsa Morante, La storia (any edition)
Movies
* Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Decameron
* Ermanno Olmi, Il mestiere delle armi
* Liliana Cavani, Galileo
* Federico Fellini, Casanova
* Luchino Visconti, Senso
* Mario Monicelli, I compagni
* Roberto Rossellini, Roma città aperta
* Vittorio De Sica, Il boom
* Paolo Sorrentino, Il divo
Further materials will be provided by the Instructor through Blended Learning/Moodle.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Attendance
Multiple choice test.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Course books
Please see above.
- Assessment
Please see above.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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