CAS 415 | Summer 2006 | Rome | Professor Thomas W. Benson
The Rhetoric of Film -
Italian Cinema - Neorealism
Near the close of World War II, while their country was still a battleground, with the German army gradually being driven North by the slowly advancing Allied armies, Italian filmmakers developed a new style of filmmaking that came to be called Neorealism. This course will examine some of the foundational works of Neorealism and trace its influence on some later Italian films.
Program notes for the films will be provided online, along with some optional readings.
We will see the films together, then meet for discussion of the films. Students will write about the films as part of their ongoing travel journals, and we will visit some of the sites depicted in the films.
links -
ANGEL | INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE | LIAS | e-mail Professor Benson | Professor Benson home page | films you might want to see before going to Rome |
optional reading -
Peter Bondanella
Italian Cinema, 3rd ed.
ISBN: 0826412475
Amazon.com $29.95
