IT 083T: First Year Seminar in Italian Literature, Film and Culture
This course is designed as an honors first-year seminar for students interested in learning more about Italian culture through film and literature. We read texts in English and watched films to determine what made Italian culture different from American culture and how the Italian culture evolved over time. Read the full description for IT 083T here.
Analysis Paper 3
For this assignment, we first watched Pietro Germi's film Divorce Italian Style. This film follows Fefe, a middle age man who is married to Rosalia. Fefe starts to get bored with his marriage and soon he finds that he is falling in love with his own cousin. However, divorce was illegal in Italy at that time. So Fefe devises a plot to have his wife killed so he can marry his cousin. The purpose of this paper was to analyze how the film portrayed Italian stereotypes. We had to determine why Germi included certain details in the film and if the stereotypes were simply exaggerated in the media spotlight or if they seemed to correlate with the true aspects of Italian culture.
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Final Paper
For the final paper in IT 083, we had to write a paper comparing two films: Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street and Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. Although Monicelli's film is a comedy and De Sica's is a tragedy, there are certain aspects of Monicelli's film that appear in The Bicycle Thief. Another part of this paper was to analyze how both films portrayed the Italian Neorealism Movement. This movement in film occurred after World War II and it combined the awful past during the War, the uncertain present and the hope for a better future. The goal of the paper was not only to compare and contrast the two films, but to analyze how this movement was portrayed in each film.
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