- Docente: Giuseppe Losacco
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sociology and Social Work (cod. 8786)
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from Sep 21, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023
Learning outcomes
Obiettivi formativi dell’insegnamento: This course is based on the sociological analysis of some films produced in Italy from the end of World War II to the ‘80 with the aim of to use Italian movies as telescopes on the past and to reflect on the present of Italian culture, from both the historical and social point of view. At the end of the course, students will have a knowledge about: • Italian cinema from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1980s • political and social transformations from the early 1900s to the 1980s • elements of Italian history from 1900 to post-war period • notions on sociological and anthropological models, necessary to interpret social transformations in Italy in the analyzed period
Course contents
The course is organized with a part of lectures taught online on MS TEAMS (2 hours) and another taught in presence (18 hours). The number of students allowed in class is determined on the basis of class capacity and by the health and safety provisions that deal with the pandemic emergency. In case more students want to attend classes in presence than permitted by the rules, a system of shifts will be organized so to allow students to participate. Regardless of the health-related conditions and the specific organization of the course, students will be able to follow the lessons of the entire course remotely on MS TEAMS.
This course is based on the vision and the analysis of films made in Italy from the end of World War II to the ‘80. We will see some of the most important movies of the Italian film history (i.e. "900" “Rome open city”, " La dolce vita" “Bread and chocolate” etc..). The aim of the course is to use these films as telescopes on the past and to reflect on the present of Italian culture, from both the historical and social point of view. In other words, this is a sociology course on Italian culture, where movies are used as data as well as a stimulus for the debate. In addition, another level of analysis will concern the styles, the schools and the directors of the shown films, and the technical and social contexts that influence the different styles. In this step, we will consider the mass communication linguistic techniques (figures of speech, metaphors, analogies), to identify both clear and hidden messages in movies.
Readings/Bibliography
A history of Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni, Bloomsbury Publishing. Wydawca pbl, 2017
Teaching methods
frontal and on line lessons and viewing of selected films
Assessment methods
Written report for attending students (70% attendance required), oral test for not attending
For attending students (attendance of at least 5 lessons of 7) it is sufficient to pass the final exam to use the material made available on the web (access with password), the notes taken in class, and the reading of the material related to the films analyzed during the course that will be provided by the teacher.
For non-attending students, the exam will be carried out on the basis of the following chapters of the following book:
Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni , A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Academic - 2017
Chapters:
2. Industry and Ideology: The Talkies during the Fascist Era
3. Neorealism: A Revolutionary and Problematic?New Film Aesthetic
4. Neorealism's Many Faces: Widening the Range of the Camera's Eye
5. The Cinema of the Reconstruction and the Return of Melodrama
7. Commedia all'italiana : Social Criticism for Laughter's Sake
8. The Italian Art Film: Auteurism in Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini, and De Sica
9. Neorealism's Legacy to a New Generation, and the Italian Political film
10. Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci
14. The Poliziesco: Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present
N.B .: Access to the material on the web is only for attending students, as it is useful material only if integrated with the lectures, and it is necessary to pass the written exam that will take place on a single date after the end of the course. The written exam is reserved only for attending students
Teaching tools
Using audiovisual during class
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Losacco