ITAL 6704
Ital Fascism thru Cinema
THIS IS A 3-WEEK COURSE DURING SESSION I
Revisiting Italian Fascism through the Lenses of Cinema and Documentaries
The main objective of this course is to explore how Italian Fascist culture is represented during the Fascist dictatorship (1922-1943) and later in Italian cinema. The primary focus is on important Italian films and documentaries about the Fascist experience. We will study films that deal with historical events and others with memory reconstruction of the past. The course will also explore the political factors that contributed to and complicated the process of achieving a collective reckoning among Italians about the responsibilities they bore for the crimes of Fascism. Lectures will address the various interpretations of Fascism presented in the films studied. We will study films by Camerini, Blasetti, Genina, Forzano, Lizzani, Montaldo, Pontecorvo, Scola, Fellini, Zampa, Wertmüller and others.
Revisiting Italian Fascism through the Lenses of Cinema and Documentaries
The main objective of this course is to explore how Italian Fascist culture is represented during the Fascist dictatorship (1922-1943) and later in Italian cinema. The primary focus is on important Italian films and documentaries about the Fascist experience. We will study films that deal with historical events and others with memory reconstruction of the past. The course will also explore the political factors that contributed to and complicated the process of achieving a collective reckoning among Italians about the responsibilities they bore for the crimes of Fascism. Lectures will address the various interpretations of Fascism presented in the films studied. We will study films by Camerini, Blasetti, Genina, Forzano, Lizzani, Montaldo, Pontecorvo, Scola, Fellini, Zampa, Wertmüller and others.