Course: Italian Literature and Film 2

« Back
Course title Italian Literature and Film 2
Course code KRI/ILF2M
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Italian
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mancini Stefano, Mgr.
  • Marini Alessandro, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Oggetto del corso saranno due film di Luchino Visconti, la cui intera opera ? intimamente segnata dalla presenza della letteratura. Analizzeremo Senso e Il gattopardo, mettendoli a confronto con i loro modelli e collocandoli nel contesto storico-sociologico in cui sono stati progettati e realizzati. The course will focus on two films by Luchino Visconti, whose entire oeuvre is intimately influenced by literature. We will analyze Senso and The Leopard, comparing them with their models and placing them in the historical and sociological context in which they were conceived and made.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Analyzing and producing audiovisual content
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of courses in Italian Literature and Film is to enhance students' interpretive skills. Film adaptation is already a form of interpretation: courses in Italian literature and film emphasize its historical and ideological features through the analysis of formal solutions of the adaptation process. During the courses the literary texts will be analyzed in comparison with their film adaptations, in order to highlight the linguistic and expressive specificity of literature and cinema and strengthen the students' skills of comparison and reflection, also in the perspective of a independent analysis of other texts.

Prerequisites
Nothing in particular. The only requirement is that the student have sufficient knowledge of Italian to follow the lessons.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Constant attendance at lessons (maximum three absences).
Recommended literature
  • Boito, Camillo. Senso. .
  • Marcus, Millicent. Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism. .
  • Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe. Il Gattopardo. .


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Italian Language and Culture (2021) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Italian Language and Culture (2021) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Italian Language and Culture (2021) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Italian Language and Culture (2021) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer