Università Roma Tre

ITALIAN CINEMA FROM NEO-REALISM TO COMEDY ITALIAN STYLE
Program: The first part is dedicated to the most emblematic theories, films, authors, figures and styles of post-war cinema. The major works of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Giuseppe De Santis, Pietro Germi are analyzed. Particular emphasis is given to the thought and practices of Cesare Zavattini. In the second part, the comedy is tackled through a multiplicity of points of view concerning the genre status, the narrative models, the types of characters, the divistic icons, the styles, the ways of production and reception. The most significant films of Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Antonio Pietrangeli are analyzed. We trace the contemporary debate and subsequent reflections in historical-critical and theoretical fields.

TEXTS: Gian Piero Brunetta, Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905-2003, Einaudi, Torino 2003 (in particular pp. 127-303); Stefania Parigi, Neorealismo. Il nuovo cinema del dopoguerra, Marsilio, Venezia 2014; Maurizio Grande, La commedia all’italiana, edited by Orio Caldiron, Bulzoni, Roma 2003; texts compiled by the teacher (that can be bought, at the beginning of the course, at the copisteria of 11, via G. Rocco). Students which will not follow the course must read also Mariapia Comand, Commedia all’italiana, Il Castoro, Milano 2010.
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; Due soldi di speranza (1951) by R. Castellani; Pane, amore e fantasia (1953) by L. Comencini; La strada (1954) by F. Fellini; Il grido (1957) by M. Antonioni; I soliti ignoti (1958) by M. Monicelli; La grande guerra (1959) by M. Monicelli; Tutti a casa (1960) by L. Comencini; Il sorpasso (1962) by D. Risi; Il professore (ep. Controsesso, 1963) by M. Ferreri; Sedotta e abbandonata (1964) by P. Germi; Io la conoscevo bene (1965) by A. Pietrangeli; C’eravamo tanto amati (1974) by E. Scola. Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.