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Course Info for LACS - 290 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3320 Title: Italian Cinema Department: Language and Culture Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 3 Available seats: 16
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, SH - N128 Instructor(s): King, Joshua
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Course Description:
Seminar on Italian cinema from neorealism to the present. The course will cover both formal and thematic movements in postwar Italian cinema, as well as the historical, political, social, and aesthetic contexts in which filmmakers are working. Film screenings will be in Italian with English subtitles. Discussions and coursework will be in English and will include students shooting and presenting their own short sequences imitating the work of Italian filmmakers. Students wishing to apply this course toward the major in Italian must secure permission of the instructor and do supplementary work in Italian.