-- IT140. Mediterranean Orientalisms. Major Italian writers and filmmakers (including Amelio, Antonioni, Bertolucci, Celati and Pasolini) have attempted to incorporate non-European (African, American, Asian or Balkan) perspectives in their work (fiction, travelogues, documentaries etc.). The course will discuss these works, giving particular attention to their reception in the cultures they portray. Subtitled films, readings and discussion groups in both English and Italian.

-- IT140. Digital Pinocchio. The evolution of a universal icon from puppet to child to robotic computerized and virtual personage. Books, films, cartoons and interactive games directly or indirectly inspired by the 19th-century tale of Carlo Collodi.

-- IT103. Modernity, Italian Style. We will review the cinematic construction of the Modern in a selection of Italian films of the 1960s (Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Bertolucci among other directors), focusing in particular on issues of Space/Representation, Time/Narrative, Fashion/Form, Gender/Genre. All films are subtitled. Additional unsubtitled films available at CIT.

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