Studies in Italian Cult:

(4 Credits)

Variable content course. Recent topics: social and cultural studies (Forgacs); Nietzsche in Italy and France (Merjian); diversity and otherness in contemporary Italy (Forgacs); Pasolini and a politics of art (Merjian); film and urban space in Italy (Forgacs); Florentine Culture, 1250-1600 (Cox); Language and Politics in Italy from the Renaissance to Berlusconi (Cox and Ben-Ghiat); War and Cinema (Ben-Ghiat); Old things, New materialisms (Falkoff); Canon-formation in the early Italian Tradition (Cornish); Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Falkoff); Film and Urban Space in Italy (Forgacs); Visual Languages of the Renaissance: Emblems, Dreams, Hieroglyphs (Cipani); politics of history in the Renaissance (Appuhn); Cinemas of Poetry, Cinemas of Painting: Antonioni, Pasolini, Parajanov (Merjian)