ITAL 381 - Gender Effects: Women in Italian Cinema

1 unit(s)

Through analysis of various filmic portrayals of the female body, narratives of female subjectivity, articulations of female desire, and experiments with female and feminist agency, we raise questions about female characters in Italian cinema, and the gendering significance of formal cinematic features. We study such films as Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, Federico Fellini’s City of Women, Lina Wertmüller’s Love and Anarchy, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged, Pappi Corsicato’s Libera. Readings of pertinent works from feminist film theory in English and Italian. Ms. Blumenfeld.

Prerequisite: ITAL 220, ITAL 222 or ITAL 218 with the permission of the instructor.

Not offered in 2014/15.