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Undergraduate - UnitATS2214 - Italy on film (In country)

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Italian Studies
Monash Passport category	International Short Field Experience (Explore Program)
Offered	Prato Term 3 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Susanna Scarparo

Notes

This is an international study program that requires an application to be enrolled - see the Arts Prato page for further information http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/prato/

Synopsis

This unit introduces students to post-war Italian cinema and its cultural contexts and gives an opportunity to view and discuss films by Scola, Rossellini, Visconti, Benigni, and others. The unit familiarises students with a variety of critical approaches and allows them to analyse the films as representatives of specific cinematographic genres and styles, and as reflections on and interpretations of post-war Italian culture. The unit covers issues such as wartime resistance; fascism; migration within, from and to Italy amongst others.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject students will be able to:

Understand, discuss and analyse different cinematographic genres and styles of post-war Italian Cinema
Develop and express a relative understanding of the cultural context of post-war Italy
Understand, discuss and analyse the ways in which select post-war Italian films reflect on and interpret the social and political issues of their time
Develop an ability to engage with written and visual texts and to understand a body of critical writing in the field

Additional objectives for third year students will be

To develop a deeper understanding of theoretical debates in the field of post-war Italian cinema and Italian culture.
The ability to apply that understanding to one or more other films of their choice not studied in class