The Major Italian Masterpieces Represented in Television and Film



In this course we will study the cinematic adaptation of some fundamental and very popular literary works written in Italy in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. Excerpts from A. Manzoni, I promessi Sposi, Carlo Levi, Cristo s'è fermato ad Eboli, Primo Levi, La tregua, Elsa Morante, La storia, G. T. di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo will be read. The novel Pinocchio, the Story of a Puppet, will be read in its entirety. During the lessons these works will be exemplified from the literary point of view as well as from the audiovisual translation.



Required Texts:

A. Maddalena, Il Gattopardo di Luchino Visconti, Guerra Edizioni, 2004. (Collana del cinema italiano per stranieri).

C. Collodi, Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino. Giunti editore 2008.

La sfida della verità. Il cinema di Francesco Rosi, a cura di A.Tassone, G. Rizza, C. Tognolotti, Firenze, Aida Edizioni, 2005

Schedule
9:00am-9:50am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at WNS HEM (Jul 5, 2012 to Aug 17, 2012)
12:00pm-12:50pm on Tuesday, Friday at WNS HEM (Jul 5, 2012 to Aug 17, 2012)
Location
Warner Hall HEM
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