Italian American Cinema and Tv
Survey of Italian American film and television directors, genres, and themes from early cinema to the present within North American cultural contexts.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 20 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Identify the major directors, genres, movements and technological developments that have shaped the history of Italian American cinema and television.
Employ various critical approaches to the historical and aesthetic evolution of Italian American motion pictures within the history of immigration, ethnicity and race in North America.
Appreciate the complex interactions between Italian American film/television culture and that of other ethnic, migrant, and diaspora communities in North America since the early 1900s.
Contextualize Italian American film within cultural, socio-political and industrial developments at the national, European and global levels.
Develop research skills and write persuasively, elegantly, and with precision about the narrative structure, style, and cultural context of Italian films.
Conduct research and engage critically with the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological practices of scholarship in Italian American film studies.
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General survey of the most significant film and television directors, genres, styles and themes in Italian American Film and Television, from the Early Cinema to the present. Films and TV programs engaging with the Italian American Experience will be studied within the cultural, historical, literary and ethnic contexts of North America.
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- Italian American Experience in media
- Interactions with other ethnic and diaspora communities
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- Critical analysis of film aesthetics and history
- Socio-political and industrial contextualization
- Research and persuasive writing on film
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