Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Italian Cinema
Instructor(s): Giuseppe Faustini, World Languages and Literatures
What do Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Wertmuller, Scola, Tornatore and Benigni
have in common? Students in this seminar will examine 20th century Italian society’s
crises and transformations by analyzing the social, political and cultural movements
that have defined Italian culture through film and literature. Students will view
and explore Italian cinematic Neorealism, examine the role in Italian cinema of Director-Authors,
analyze Italian 20th century and classical literary works, and discuss cinematographic
adaptations of those works. In additions, students will learn how to read a film and
analyze the translation process from a literary text to film. Films in Italian with
English subtitles.
Course Offered