This Course Carries the Global Cultures Flag. Global Cultures Courses Are Designed to Increase Your Familiarity with Cultural Groups Outside the United States

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ITL 375 (37035) SICILY IN LITERATURE AND FILM Spring 2012

Instructor: Daniela Bini Office Hours: HRH 3.112C: W 10:30-11:00 and by appointment e-mail: [email protected]; phone: 471-5995 Class meetings: TTh: 11:00-12:30, HRH 2.112; Screenings TBA

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Sicily has always occupied a priviledged place in the Italian literary and cinematic imagination. While such writers as Pirandello, Sciascia, and Verga have created what can legitimately be called a distinctly Sicilian category of Italian literature, such filmmakers as Visconti, Rosi, Tornatore, Giordana have been drawn to the island as a space for cinematic experimentation and artistic self- discovery. From Visconti's 1948 neorealist masterpiece La terra trema to Tornatore's 1988 Oscar- winning Cinema Paradiso, from Verga's late nineteenth century short stories to Sciascia's Mafia-based thrillers, Sicily has become both a mythic space of the mind, as well as a signifier, in extremis for its own, and the rest of Italy's, social, political, and historical concerns. The course will involve close analysis of selected novels, short stories, and films with specific focus on such issues as unification history, the Mafia, and social/sexual mores. Attendance at the screenings is required. This course will be taught in Italian.

There will be four short papers (2-3 pages) to be written in Italian, a midterm and a final. Since the course will be conducted as a seminar, a great deal of emphasis will be placed on active class participation. The final grade will be computed as follows: Papers: 40%; Midterm: 20%; Final: 30%; Class Participation: 10%

This course carries the Global Cultures flag. Global Cultures courses are designed to increase your familiarity with cultural groups outside the United States. You should therefore expect a substantial portion of your grade to come from assignments covering the practices, beliefs, and histories of at least one non‐U.S. cultural group, past or present.

TESTI Elio Vittorini, Conversazione in Sicilia Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (selezione di pagine) Vitaliano Brancati, Il Bell'Antonio Leonardo Sciascia, A ciascuno il suo Luigi Pirandello, selezione da Novelle per un anno (on line) Giovanni Verga, selezione da Novelle rusticane e Vita dei campi (on line) Giuseppe Fava, due saggi on Blackboard

FILM Gianni Amelio, Ladro di bambini Optional: Mauro Bolognini, Bell’Antonio Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather 2 Franco Zeffirelli, Cavalleria rusticana Giuseppe Tornatore, L’uomo delle stelle Vittorio e Paolo Taviani, Kaos Pietro Germi, Divorzio all’italiana Marco Tullio Giordana, I cento passi

SYLLABUS PARTE 1: IL VIAGGIO GENNAIO martedì 17 Introduzione: La Sicilia: Un po' di storia, arte e natura...... giovedì 19 Leggere Conversazione in Sicilia, (cap. I-X) martedì 24 Conversazione (cap. XI-XXII) giovedì 26 Coversazione (XXIII-XXXV)). martedì 31 Conversazione, (finire). FEBBRAIO MERCOLEDÌ I febbraio: PROIEZIONE DI LADRO DI BAMBINI (GIANNI AMELIO) (alle 6:00) Last day to drop a course for possible refund giovedì 2 Discussione del film; leggere Il Gattopardo (parte prima, pp.31-46); SAGGIO 1.

PARTE 2: LA STORIA martedì 7 Gattopardo (parte prima, finire) giovedì 9 Gattopardo (parte seconda, pp. 69-87) martedì 14 Gattopardo (parte seconda, finire ) Last day to drop a course without a possible academic penalty giovedì 16 Gattopardo,(parte terza,pp. 105-121) martedì 21 Gattopardo (parte terza, finire) giovedì 23 Gattopardo (pp.170-185) LUNEDÌ 27: PROIEZIONE DE IL GATTOPARDO-LUCHINO VISCONTI (alle 6:00) martedì 28 Analisi del film; MARZO giovedì I ESAME

PARTE 3: COSTUMI SOCIALI martedì 6 Verga: "Cavalleria rusticana," http://schoolupdate.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/cavalleria-rusticana-novella-integrale/ "La lupa.” http://schoolupdate.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/la-lupa-novella-integrale/ MERCOLEDÌ 7: PROIEZIONE DELL’OPERA CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (alle 6:00) giovedì 8 SAGGIO 2 Libretto dell’opera, http://opera.stanford.edu/Mascagni/Cavalleria/libretto.html cominciare a leggere “Rosso Malpelo” http://www.atuttascuola.it/novelle/malpelo.htm

SPRING BREAK martedì 20 Verga: “Rosso Malpelo" finire, Pirandello“La giara,” http://www.classicitaliani.it/pirandel/novelle/11_144.htm giovedì 22 Pirandello: “Mal di luna,” “L’altro figlio.”

LUNEDÌ 26 PROIEZIONE DEL FILM KAOS (FRATELLI TAVIANI) (alle 6:00) martedì 27 Discussione film giovedì 29 Il Bell'Antonio (V. Brancati), cap. 1-2

APRILE martedì 3 Il Bell'Antonio, cap. 3-5 giovedì 5 Il Bell’Antonio, cap.6-8; SAGGIO 3 martedì 10 Il Bell'Antonio, cap.9. MERCOLEDÌ 11: PROIEZIONE DI DIVORZIO ALL’ITALIANA (P. GERMI); FAC 344, alle 6:00 giovedì 12 Discussione del film

PARTE 4: LA MAFIA martedì 17 Leggere Sciascia: A ciascuno il suo giovedì 19 A ciascuno il suo martedì 24: A ciascuno il suo giovedì 26: A ciascuno il suo (finire)

LUNEDÌ 30 PROIEZIONE DE I CENTO PASSI (M.T. GIORDANA) alle 6:00

2 MAGGIO martedì I Discutere il film. SAGGIO 4 giovedì 3 Giuseppe Fava, “La vergogna” “La speranza”

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