Università Roma Tre

ITALIAN CINEMA. FROM POSTWAR TO THE 60s.
Program: The course focuses on two of the most important periods in the history of Italian cinema: postwar cinema and the 60s. The first part is devoted to the most representatives theories, films, authors, figures, and styles of neorealism. The second part analyzes the diverse panorama of the 60s: from auteur cinema of old and new generations to genre movements such as comedy and spaghetti western.

TEXTS: Gian Piero Brunetta, Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905-2003, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (in particular chapters II and III); Stefania Parigi, Immagini del neorealismo, Marsilio, Venezia 2014; Emiliano Morreale, Cinema d'autore degli anni Sessanta, Il Castoro, Milano 2011; a compilation of texts by the teacher (you can find it at the beginning of the course at the fotocopisteria in Via G. Rocco, n. 11).
FILMOGRAPHY: Ossessione (1943) by L.Visconti; Paisà (1946) by R. Rossellini; Germania anno zero (1948) by R. Rossellini; Ladri di biciclette (1948) by V. De Sica; La terra trema (1948) by L. Visconti; Riso amaro (1949) by G. De Santis; Miracolo a Milano (1950) by V. De Sica; Il cammino della speranza (1950) by P. Germi; Due soldi di speranza (1951) by R. Castellani; Pane amore e fantasia (1953) by L. Comencini; Il grido (1957) by M. Antonioni; I soliti ignoti (1958) by M. Monicelli; La dolce vita (1960) by F. Fellini; Accattone (1961) by P. P. Pasolini; Il sorpasso (1962) by D. Risi; I fidanzati (1963) by E. Olmi; Prima della rivoluzione (1964) by B. Bertolucci; Per un pugno di dollari (1964) by S. Leone; I pugni in tasca (1965) by M. Bellocchio; Blow-up (1967) by M. Antonioni; Dillinger è morto (1969) by M. Ferreri. Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.