The 150th Anniversary of Italy Unification seen through the Films of the Tavianis Brothers



The course will study and analyze 150 years of national history through

the Taviani Brothers' films. We will look at the agricultural society

of the South and the reality of migration studying A Man for Burning

and Good Morning Babylon. The Risorgimento as an unsuccessful

revolution will be analyzed from the standpoint of Saint Michael had a

Rooster and Allonsanfan. We will also study the subversion and the

utopias of the Sixties, the Resistance movement and the issue of the

South as portrayed in The Night of San Lorenzo, My Father, my Master

and Kaos , adapted from short stories by Sicilian writer par

excellence, Luigi Pirandello. Through an examination of so-called

"political cinema," we will study the disengagement and economic boom

that followed the Resistance through the comedies of Risi and

Monicelli, concluding with a look at the cinema of the last generation

(Vicari, Munzi, Garrone, Marra and Crialese) who experiment with new

narrative forms.