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WLE Dept. Spring 2016 MAFIA IN THE MOVIES ITA 4930 (in English) M-W 2:00pm-3:15pm Instructor: Dr. Federica Colleoni [email protected] This course will focus on Italian and Italian-American history and culture and on cinematic representations of Mafia. Tony Soprano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Lucky Luciano, Robert De Niro, Salvatore Giuliano, Martin Scorsese, Placido Rizzotto, Peppino Impastato, Christopher Moltisanti and Leonardo Sciascia are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American Mafias. In this course we will identify these and other protagonists of mafia folklore and explore the myth of the Mafia that is so widespread in America, and trace its history and function as it passes across time and through multiple cultures. We will question whether there exists a unique American or Italian cinema treating the Mafia and explore how filmmakers from the two countries approach the subject in dissimilar fashions, especially in terms of stereotyping, gender roles, and representations of violence. Readings and films include works by Martin Scorsese, Leonardo Sciascia, Elio Petri, Francis Ford Coppola, Howard Hawkes, David Chase, Francesco Rosi, Marco Tullio Giordana, Pasquale Scimeca, Matteo Garrone, John Dickie, Anton Blok and Renate Siebert. Taught in English.
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WLE Dept. Spring 2016
MAFIA IN THE MOVIES ITA 4930 (in English)
M-W 2:00pm-3:15pm Instructor: Dr. Federica Colleoni
This course will focus on Italian and Italian-American history and culture and on cinematic representations of Mafia. Tony Soprano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Lucky Luciano, Robert De Niro, Salvatore Giuliano, Martin Scorsese, Placido Rizzotto, Peppino Impastato, Christopher Moltisanti and Leonardo Sciascia are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American Mafias. In this course we will identify these and other protagonists of mafia folklore and explore the myth of the Mafia that is so widespread in America, and trace its history and function as it passes across time and through multiple cultures. We will question whether there exists a unique American or Italian cinema treating the Mafia and explore how filmmakers from the two countries approach the subject in dissimilar fashions, especially in terms of stereotyping, gender roles, and representations of violence. Readings and films include works by Martin Scorsese, Leonardo Sciascia, Elio Petri, Francis Ford Coppola, Howard Hawkes, David Chase, Francesco Rosi, Marco Tullio Giordana, Pasquale Scimeca, Matteo Garrone, John Dickie, Anton Blok and Renate Siebert. Taught in English.
