2021 Fall
ITALIAN 170 001 - LEC 001
The Italian Cinema: History, Genres, Authors
Italian Cinema and the Ecological Imagination
Rhiannon Welch
Class #:25431
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Italian Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
1
Enrolled: 27
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 28
Waitlist Max: 5
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 3 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.
Final Exam
FRI, DECEMBER 17TH
08:00 am - 11:00 am
Other classes by Rhiannon Welch
Course Catalog Description
An analysis of Italian cinema as seen in the development of specific film genres such as neorealism, comedy, self-reflexive cinema. Occasionally the course will concentrate on a specific director and study his individuality through style, theme, and personal development. This course fulfills film major requirement in one of history, genre, auteur.
Class Description
Understood, variously, as magical, dreamlike, a ghostly projection, ‘writing with light,’ moving images often appear to us as an ephemeral, immaterial form. And yet, cinematic production, distribution, and consumption has always relied upon natural resource extraction, petrochemicals, and biohazards that have lasting, material effects on the landscapes and bodies behind the scenes and projected onscreen. Cinema thus both makes and marks worlds, indelibly. This course explores a selection of films made in and around Italy beginning in the 1950s that engage the ecological imagination as they intersect with human and more-than-human worlds—from volcanoes to goat birth and death, from air pollution to toxic waste dumps. Films by: Vittorio De Seta, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gillo Pontecorvo, Matteo Garrone, Giovanna Taviani, Michele Frammartino, Ciprì and Maresco. Readings by: Erika Balsom, Nadia Bozack, Elena Past and Monica Seger.
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Class Notes
Taught in English; no Italian language experience is required.
However, students who have already taken IS 101, please note: With permission of the instructor, upper division courses taught in English can count as courses taught in Italian if readings and written work are completed in I.. show more
However, students who have already taken IS 101, please note: With permission of the instructor, upper division courses taught in English can count as courses taught in Italian if readings and written work are completed in I.. show more
Taught in English; no Italian language experience is required.
However, students who have already taken IS 101, please note: With permission of the instructor, upper division courses taught in English can count as courses taught in Italian if readings and written work are completed in Italian. show less
However, students who have already taken IS 101, please note: With permission of the instructor, upper division courses taught in English can count as courses taught in Italian if readings and written work are completed in Italian. show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
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