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ChildrenÂs literature aims to entertain and edify young readers. Reading Italian childrenÂs literature, beginning with Pinocchio (1880), allows us to discover the values, expectations and self image of the culture. Considering the historical context, the course will analyze the way texts embody political, moral, religious and economic agendas. We will examine imagery, metaphor and other structures authors use to create fantasy worlds for children and adults. Reading and exercises will be complemented with movies and discussions to develop linguistic capacity.
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The Business Italian course will explore the business, economic and legal environment in Italy. Students will become familiar with the current practices and customs of doing business in Italy and acquire the linguistic skills necessary for written and oral professional communication.
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This course examines DanteÂs Inferno in its cultural, social and political context. In particular we will explore how the underground world imagined by the poet relates to late medieval urban life and culture. To this end we will study DanteÂs masterpiece alongside textual and visual documents of his age, including selections from major works of literature, political science, historiography and visual arts. Ample use will be made of audio-visual resources as well as of reading and in-class discussion.
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This course examines the ways in which perceptions of racial and cultural identities within Italy are changing and adapting to the countryÂs ongoing transformation towards a pluralistic society. The first half of the course provides students with an overview of historical discourse on race and the history of migrations in and out of Italy. It then considers responses to immigration which have emerged in legislation, political discourse, and civil society, highlighting both racist and anti-racist reactions. The course also examines the experiences of various minority groups in Italy, emphasizing their own accounts of life in contemporary Italy.
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In perhaps no other European Country are art and literature so deeply intertwined as in Italy. To Better understand this vivid dialectic between texts and images, this course emphasizes reading and looking as complementary practices for interpreting Italian culture, by posing provocative questions and by comparing pairs of artist-authors such as Dante/Giotto, Michelangelo/Vittoria Colonna, Caravaggio/Gelilei, Goldoni/Canaletto, Fellini/Flaniano
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The course explores the ways in which postwar Italian cinema has been a mirror of ItalyÂs 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 RosselliniÂs 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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Italian for Musicians is a course that has been designed to for language study with a special focus on Italian as it is used in the operatic repertoire. Students will be reading and discussing in class aria and recitative texts with a focus on those linguistic features that pose particular problems to the non-native singer of Italian, such as consonant and phrasal doubling, word stress and vowel purity. The recordings used in class will highlight Italian singers known for their diction and expressive style.
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Taken concurrently with IT 133-20. See description for Italian 133-20 for more information.
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The course is an exploration of various genres in Italian poetry and prose, and a workshop in creative writing in Italian. We will look at the formal features and the historical development of the most important and influential forms in Italian poetry, and will try our hand at different techniques of poetic writing. As far as prose is concerned, we will focus on the technique of story-telling, and will also try our hand at writing aphorisms. By the end of the class, we will have produced our own personal anthology of poems and prose pieces in Italian. Our portfolio will be posted on our exclusive website http://projects.mmlc.northwestern.edu/italianwriting/
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This course examines the ways in which perceptions of racial and cultural identities within Italy are changing and adapting to the countryÂs ongoing transformation towards a pluralistic society. The first half of the course provides students with an overview of historical discourse on race and the history of migrations in and out of Italy. It then considers responses to immigration which have emerged in legislation, political discourse, and civil society, highlighting both racist and anti-racist reactions. The course also examines the experiences of various minority groups in Italy, emphasizing their own accounts of life in contemporary Italy.
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The course will be a journey through the modern city. While investigating the relationship between urban and human space, we will explore the multiple significations and complexities of the city as place, representation, perception, dream, image, memory, desire, etc. Through the reading of Sbarbaro, Pavese, Ortese, Pasolini, Flaiano, Calvino we will move from Âle città invivibili to Âle città invisibiliÂ.
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The course opens with an examination of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa and then focuses on African postcolonial responses to colonial history. Through the reading and analysis of literary texts, cultural essays, and historical accounts, the course explores how sexuality and violence impacted on colonial relations, and how memories of colonial sexuality and violence challenge contemporary encounters between Italians and second-generation African-Italians.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century Italian Futurism, a radical, innovative movement of revolutionary poets and artists, spread revolutionary ideas that are the root of many avant-garde movements. Italian Futurists incited street riots to proclaim the destruction of all museums and libraries, the right to absolute freedom of expression, free sex, the abolition of marriage and all cultural traditions, and scorn for parliamentary politics and romanticism. Their path-breaking artistic practices marked all European avant-garde revolutions and influenced contemporary avant-garde expressions, including Pop Art, Arte Povera, and the Punk movement. In this course, we will explore the philosophical and aesthetic undercurrents of Futurism and investigate to what extend its ideas and practices are still relevant for us today. The course takes into consideration different aesthetic and expressive forms, such as visual art, literature, and music.
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See 133-2 Intensive Italian for course description.
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The Italian Performance Class will conceive, create, perform, direct, film and edit an Italian teleromanzo, a soap opera, in Italian. After analyzing episodes of delightfully cheesy Italian teleromanzi, each participant will develop a character with a hidden past and forbidden desires. The characters will then be brought together in a series of highly charged dramatic situations. Participants will write, memorize and perform scenes and shoot them on video. We will create several puntate and make them available to the public through the Italian web site.
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In the early twentieth century, Italian Futurism announced the advent of modernity by glorifying the beauty of fast cars, masculine virility, and scorn of woman. What do these elements have in common? And how did the Futurist women respond to these ideas? A decade later, Mussolinis Fascist regime, the first of its kind in Europe, asked Italian middle-class women, on the one hand, to embody the national virile model celebrated by the Futurists; on the other, it demanded that proletarian women be exemplary wives and mothers. These competing view points created complex models of femininity. At the same time, once clearly analyzed, they may help explain the contradictory fascination many women felt for the regime. The course focuses on Italy as a case-study in order to investigate larger issues related to the role of women under Fascist regimes, violence and biologist politics, as well as the role of class-status and aesthetics in forging womens national identity.
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Numerous critics, from Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer to contemporary film scholars like Tom Gunning, have identified the detective story as the genre in which modernity and its visual regimes are both exposed and de-familiarized. This course will explore the multiple and radically innovative ways in which post-war Italian cinema has assumed and undone the detective genre, questioning our received notions of history, memory, and truth. We will begin with Luchino Viscontis Ossessione, the first Neorealist film and also the free adaptation of James M. Cains The Postman Always Rings Twice, continue with Michelangelo Antonionis impossible detective stories (Lavventura, Blow-up, and The Passenger), and then focus on those works by Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter), Elio Petri (Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion), and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, The Spiders Stratagem) that most forcefully responded to the watershed events of 1968. We will read, among others, texts by Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Giorgio Agamben.
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