ITALIAN AMERICAN CINEMA AND TV

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, genres, movements and technological developments that have shaped the history of Italian American cinema and television. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Employ various critical approaches to the historical and aesthetic evolution of Italian American motion pictures within the history of immigration, ethnicity and race in North America. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Appreciate the complex interactions between Italian American film/television culture and that of other ethnic, migrant, and diaspora communities in North America since the early 1900s. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Contextualize Italian American film within cultural, socio-political and industrial developments at the national, European and global levels. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop research skills and write persuasively, elegantly, and with precision about the narrative structure, style, and cultural context of Italian films. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Conduct research and engage critically with the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological practices of scholarship in Italian American film studies. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the major directors, genres, movements and technological developments that have shaped the history of Italian American cinema and television. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Employ various critical approaches to the historical and aesthetic evolution of Italian American motion pictures within the history of immigration, ethnicity and race in North America. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Appreciate the complex interactions between Italian American film/television culture and that of other ethnic, migrant, and diaspora communities in North America since the early 1900s. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Contextualize Italian American film within cultural, socio-political and industrial developments at the national, European and global levels. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop research skills and write persuasively, elegantly, and with precision about the narrative structure, style, and cultural context of Italian films. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Conduct research and engage critically with the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological practices of scholarship in Italian American film studies. Audience: Graduate