COURSE CALENDAR

INTRODUCTION- SCREENING 'MALE CRISES': ITALIAN-STYLE

 

Week 1 (18-21 January)     

     Lesson 1: No class

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      Homework​​

• Study "Film Terms" (under Resources tab) 

• Set up a Twitter account & follow our course feed: @italyonscreen (optional)

• Follow np_italian on Instagram (optional) 

 

     ​Lesson 2: Course structure, objectives, resources

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     Homework​

• Study "Film Terms" (under Resources tab) 

• Watch this clip 3x. Write down all of the film techniques you notice. We'll review them during our next virtual class session

• Read "Introduction: The Study of Masculinity"(required p. 12-20)

• Watch Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"

• Read "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"(optional reading)

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

• Set up a Twitter account & follow our course feed: @italyonscreen (optional)

• Follow np_italian on Instagram (optional)

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Week 2 (25-28 January)

     Lesson 1: Masculinity, Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema, Fascist Rhetorics of Virility

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      Homework​

• Read "Two Ordinary People; One Special Day"

• Viewing  Guide- Una giornata particolare (A Special Day)(word doc)

• Viewing  Guide- Una giornata particolare (A Special Day)(pdf)

• Watch Una giornata particolare (instructions on Blackboard)

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     Lesson 2: Una giornata particolare (A Special Day, Ettore Scola, 1977)

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      Homework​

• Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, January 29th (on Blackboard) 

• Read "Rhetorics of Virility: D'Annunzio, Marinetti, Mussolini, Benjamin" (p. 1-5)

• Read "Fascism in Recent Italian Films" (p. 37-39)

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 3 (1-4 February)

     Lesson 1: Masculinity, Fascist Rhetorics of Virility

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      Homework​

• Read "Bertolucci's The Conformist: A Morals Guide"

• Viewing Guide- Il conformista (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Il conformista (pdf)

• Watch Il conformista

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     Lesson 2: Il conformista (The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

     

      Homework​

• Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, February 5th (on Blackboard)

• Reconstruction and the Late '40s

• Read "It's a Neorealist World" (optional)

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

 

Week 4 (8-11 February)

     Lesson 1: Italian Neorealism and Post-War Masculinity

 

     Homework​

• Read "De Sica's Bicycle Thief: Casting Shadows on the Visionary City"

• Viewing Guide- Ladri di biciclette (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Ladri di biciclette (pdf)

• Watch Ladri di biciclette​

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     Lesson 2: Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica, 1948)  

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      Homework​

• Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, February 12th (on Blackboard) 

• Read "The Early 1960s"

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 5 (15-18 February)

     Lesson 1: The inetto

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      Homework​​

• Read "The Inetto Versus the Unruly Woman Mastroianni and Sophia Loren"

  Viewing Guide- Ieri, oggi, domani (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Ieri, oggi, domani (pdf)

• Watch Ieri, oggi, domani

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     Lesson 2: Ieri, oggi, domani (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Vittorio De Sica, 1963)

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      Homework​​

• Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, February 19th (on Blackboard) 

• Read "Destabilising Paradise: Men, Women and Mafiosi: Sicilian Stereotypes"

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 6 (22-25 February)

    Lesson 1: Masculinity and Sicilian Stereotypes

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Homework​​

• Read "Germi's Seduced and Abandoned : Inside the Honor Code

• Viewing Guide- Sedotta e abbandonata (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Sedotta e abbandonata (pdf)

• Watch Sedotta e abbandonata 

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    Lesson 2: Sedotta e abbandonata (Seduced and Abandoned, Pietro Germi, 1964)

 

Homework​

• Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, February 26th (on Blackboard) 

• Read “Myth and Resistance in the Italian Mafia Movie” (p. 17-26)

• Discussion questions (word doc)

• Discussion questions (pdf)

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Week 7 (1-4 March)

     Lesson 1: [Anti] Mafia Masculinity

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      Homework​​

• Read "Oedipal Conflicts in Marco Tullio Giordana's The Hundred Steps"

• Viewing Guide- I cento passi (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- I cento passi (pdf)

• Watch I cento passi 

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     Lesson 2: I cento passi (One Hundred Steps, Marco Tullio Giordana, 2000)

     

   Homework​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, March 5th (on Blackboard) 

• Course review - meme assignment (word doc) - submit by 5pm on Sunday, March 7th (Blackboard, under assignments)

• Course review - meme assignment (pdf) - submit by 5pm on Sunday, March 7th (Blackboard, under assignments)

 

Week 8 (8-11 March)

     Lesson 1: Course Review & Explanation of "Unessay"

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      Homework​​

• Prepare for Library Research Session (read "Unessay" instructions- under the "Assessments" heading)

     

      Lesson 2: Library Research Session

 

     Homework​​

• Read "The Later 1960s"

• Discussion questions (word doc)

• Discussion questions (pdf)

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Week 9 (15-18 March)

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    Lesson 1: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italian Masculinity

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      Homework​

• Read "Pasolini's Teorema: The Halfway Revolution"

• Viewing Guide- Teorema (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Teorema (pdf)

• Watch Teorema

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     Lesson 2: Teorema (Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)

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      Homework​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, March 19th (on Blackboard) 

• Read Fellini Interview, Playboy (February 1966)

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 10 (22-25 March)

     Lesson 1: Fellini, Mastroianni, and Italian Masculinity

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      Homework​​

• Read "Star, Gender, and Nation: Marcello Mastroianni and Italian Masculinity"

• Viewing Guide- Città delle donne (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Città delle donne  (pdf)

• Watch Città delle donne

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     Lesson 2: Città delle donne (City of Women, Federico Fellini, 1980)

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      Homework​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, March 26th (on Blackboard) 

• Read "The Next Millenium"

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 11 (29 March- 1 April)

     Lesson 1: Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Comedies & In-class session "Unessay" proposals

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      Homework​

• Read "Comedy and Masculinity, Italian Style"

• Viewing Guide- Posti in piedi in paradiso (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Posti in piedi in paradiso (pdf)

• Watch Posti in piedi in paradiso

• Sign up for unessay presentation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-K7K_hB3gUVt1QllqgxyjxWchjcbZF5GMHpFikD-QyxpwFg/viewform?usp=sf_link

• Submit "Unessay" proposal by midnight on Friday, April 2nd (on Blackboard)

     

 

    Lesson 2: Posti in piedi in paradiso (A Flat for Three, Carlo Verdone, 2012)

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      Homework​​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, April 2nd (on Blackboard) 

• Read "Migration, Masculinity, and Italy's New Urban Geographies"

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

• Sign up for unessay presentation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-K7K_hB3gUVt1QllqgxyjxWchjcbZF5GMHpFikD-QyxpwFg/viewform?usp=sf_link

• Submit "Unessay" proposal by midnight on Friday, April 2nd (on Blackboard)

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Week 12 (5-8 April)

     Lesson 1: Migration and Masculinity

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      Homework​​

• Read "Precarious Masculinity: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Desire in Claudio Giovannesi’s Alì ha gli occhi azzurri" 

• Viewing Guide- Alì ha gli occhi azzurri (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Alì ha gli occhi azzurri (pdf)

• Watch Alì ha gli occhi azzurri ​

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     Lesson 2: Alì ha gli occhi azzurri

     

        Homework​​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, April 9th (on Blackboard) 

• Read "The ‘Primal Scene’- Memory, Redemption and ‘Woman’ in the Films of Paolo Sorrentino"

• Discussion Questions (word doc)

• Discussion Questions (pdf)

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Week 13 (12-15 April)

     Lesson 1: Masculinity in/and Old Age

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      Homework​

• Read "Intimacy and Hedonism- The Aesthetics of the Terrazza in Italian Cinema"

• Viewing Guide- La grande bellezza (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- La grande bellezza (pdf)

• Watch La grande bellezza

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, April 16th (on Blackboard) 

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     Lesson 2: No Class Session- Mind, Body, Spirit Day

 

     Homework​​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, April 16th (on Blackboard) 

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Week 14 (19-22 April)  

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      Lesson 1:  La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, 2012) 

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     Homework​

• Read Society at a Glance 2019

• Watch “Q & A: What it’s Like Being Gay in Italy”

• Read Review of Puoi baciare lo sposo

• Read "Queering Italian Media"

• Viewing Guide- Puoi baciare lo sposo (word doc)

• Viewing Guide- Puoi baciare lo sposo (pdf)

• Watch Puoi baciare lo sposo

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     Lesson 2: Puoi baciare lo sposo (My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Alessandro Genovesi, 2018)

     

     Homework​​

• ​Submit viewing guide by midnight on Friday, April 23rd (on Blackboard) 

• Prepare for "Unessay" presentations

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Week 15 (26-29 April)  

 

     Lesson 1: "Unessay" presentations & course conclusions

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     Lesson 2: "Unessay" presentations & course conclusions 

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UNESSAY, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, & REFLECTION PAPER

DUE MAY 10 by 4:45pm (on BB)

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