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• Topic 1: 'Fondata sul lavoro': Labour Narratives in Post-war Italy
• Topic 2: Colonial, Anticolonial and Postcolonial Italy
• Topic 3:ÌýItalian Photo-texts after 1945Ìý(cross-listed with IT9)
• Topic 4:ÌýRome in Italian Cinema
• Topic 5:ÌýFascism and Culture
• Topic 6:ÌýPasolini Between Text, Image and Art Ìý(cross-listed withÌýIT9)

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Topic 1: Ìý'Fondata sul lavoro': Labour Narratives in Post-war Italy

The first article of the Italian Constitution states that ‘Italy is a democratic republic, founded on labour’. This is revelatory of the centrality of questions of labour and work in Italian culture in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. As part of this module, we will see how literature and film have been two of the media through which questions of labour and work have been problematised, explored in their harsh contradictions and interrogated most acutely. We will look at how writers and film directors have engaged, directly or indirectly, with these aspects from the second half of the 20th century to the present, across different media, genres and aesthetics and through the use of a variety of techniques and tropes. Ìý

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Topic 2: Colonial, Anticolonial and Postcolonial Italy

This topic explores different forms of cultural engagement with the Italian colonial, anticolonial and postcolonial experiences, looking at texts and films produced from the early twentieth century to the present. The early colonial propaganda, the problematic memory – and amnesia or aphasia – of the Italian colonial experience and the forms of anticolonial and postcolonial commitment that have characterised the past 60 years will be considered through a constellation of materials ranging from novels to pamphlets, to political cinema and art.

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Topic 3: Italian Photo-texts after 1945 (cross-listed with IT9)

For further details, see IT9 webpage and Moodle

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Topic 4: Rome in Italian Cinema

This topic will examine some of the most important films in Italian cinema from the perspective of the representation of the city of Rome, as the site of cinema, of modernity and migration, of socio-political protest, of Italian national identity or simply as autobiography. Films studied will include: R. Rossellini, Roma città aperta (1945); V. De Sica, Ladri di biciclette (1948); Steno, Un americano a Roma (1954); F. Fellini, La dolce vita (1960), Roma (1970); P. P. Pasolini, Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962); M. Antonioni, ³¢â€™e³¦±ô¾±²õ²õ±ð (1963); N. Moretti, Caro diario (1993); G. Rosi, Sacro GRA (2013)

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Topic 5: Fascism and Culture

This topic will examine the web of relations between the Fascist regime in Italy, through its two decades and more of rule in Italy (1922-1943/5), and the fields of culture, from literature, cinema, theatre and art to the ‘public’ culture of architecture and the institutions of cultural promotion and control. Study will include Fascist culture in mainland Italy and Italian colonial and occupied territories. Emphasis will be on the two-way traffic between state and culture (and individual artists), rather than on simplistic models of state control. We will work through a combination of study of historical material and of cultural texts and artefacts.

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Topic 6: Pasolini Between Text, Image and Art Ìý(cross-listed withÌýIT9)

For further details, see IT9 webpage and MoodleÌý

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