Cinematic Italy: Sight and Sound of Three Cities

Instructor

David Li

Location

Course Description

Italian cinema has a long and glorious tradition from movements like “neorealism” to auteurs like Visconti, Rossellini, and Fellini. This class is structured in the form of a cultural geography of three cities, following the boot from north to south. It offers a deliberate contrast of representation between the classic and the contemporary so we have a better sense of the land and the people through the camera’s capture of history.

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