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The course explores the ways in which postwar Italian cinema has been a mirror of Italy's many doubles: vagrants, gypsies, southern peasants, illegal immigrants, foreign invaders, luscious women, that is, the many internal and external others that have become object of fantasies in filmic representations. While becoming familiar with canonical film, students will also learn how to identify the hidden and blurred areas that the cinematic screen unveils about the Italian national imagination. As an inclusionary and exclusionary visual practice, postwar Italian cinema will reveal past and current ideas about the extension and limit of identity boundaries. The course opens with Rossellini's classic Open City (1945) and includes canonical authors such as Pontecorvo, Antonioni, Pasolini and less know ones such as Amelio and Munzi.
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This seminar explores the many meanings, contexts, and adaptations of a major work of literature. In the 1770s, a French artillery officer, Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, told an acquaintance that he was resolved to Âwrite a book that would cause some stir in the world and continue to do so after I had gone from it. In 1782, he published Dangerous Liaisons, one of the most controversial and brilliantly plotted novels ever written, a work that has been adapted many times on stage and film, and whose afterlife includes the classic teenage drama ÂCruel IntentionsÂ. In this seminar we will focus first on the novelÂs origins and meanings in its own context: what it owes to court culture, to military strategy, to libertine and pornographic literature of the time and to the epistolary tradition. We will read about aristocratic culture and the origins of the French Revolution. Second, we will explore two plays and several movies and discuss the process of adaptation from page to stage and screen. Finally, we will look at the workÂs resonance today, especially in the analogies that can be drawn between the enclosed and privileged worlds of the eighteenth-century aristocracy and middle-class American high schools.
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How do institutions such as museums, and other created contexts such as websites and archaeological sites developed as tourist destinations, shape and construct our notions of the past? How are these institutions enmeshed with broader cultural and political agendas regarding cultural identity and otherness, the formation of artistic canons, and even the concept of ancient art? This course explores modern strategies of collecting, classification, and display of material culture from ancient Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, and Rome, both in Europe and the United States and in their present-day homelands. Topics examined include the development of modern displays devoted to ancient civilizations in public and private museums, notions of authenticity and identity, issues of cultural heritage and patrimony, temporary and blockbuster shows, virtual exhibitions, and the archaeological site as locus of display. Visits to museums in the Chicago area will enhance opportunities to analyze specific ways in which objects and ideas about antiquity are presented.
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