Module Identifier IT30610  
Module Title ITALIAN CINEMA: NEOREALISM  
Academic Year 2005/2006  
Co-ordinator Adriano Vincentelli  
Semester Semester 1  
Other staff Dr Roberta Sartoni  
Pre-Requisite (Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 3 Italian.  
Co-Requisite None (IT30710 recommended).  
Course delivery Other   Contact Hours. (Total of 15 Lectures/Seminars/Tutorials/Practicals.)  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Exam2 Hours Written exam.70%
Semester Assessment Continuous Assessment: 1 essay of 1500-2000 words or assigment/presentation30%
Supplementary Exam 1 x 2 hour examination if continuous assessment submitted. 1 x 3 hour examination if no continuous assessment submitted.100%

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module students will


Brief description

Neorealism as a movement was very short-lived, yet associated with it are the names of some of the best known film directors, artists and writers of the fifties: from Rossellini and Visconti to Fellini, from Vittorini and Pasolini to Calvino. Despite running rapidly into the hostility of the Italian establishment its influence was profound and long-lasting both within Italy and abroad. After the long years of Fascist propaganda and mystification it distinguished itself for its keen sense of social responsibility, moral commitment and for its increasingly unwelcome determination to bring to public's attention human, political and social problems.

Reading Lists

Books
Vittorini, E. Uomini e no Mondadori
Liehm, Mira Passion and Defiance: film in Italy from 1942 to the Present University of California Press
Bazin, A. What is cinema? University of California Press
Hill, A & P. Church Gibson (eds) The Oxford Guide to Film Studies
Pacifici, S. From Verismo to experimentalism: essays on the modern Italian novel Indiana U.P.
Pacifici, S. The modern Italian novel: From Pea to Moravia Southern Illinois U.P.
Potter, J. H Elio Vittorini Twayne
Fiorentino, L. Narratori del Novecento Mondadori
Marcus, Millicent Italian film in the Light of Neorealism Princeton University Press
Bondanella, Peter Italian cinema from Neorealism to the Present Frederick Ungar, New York, 1982
Overbe, David (ed) Springtime in Italy: A reader on Neo-Realism Talisman Books, London, 1978
FILMS:
Luchino Visconti Ossessione
Roberto Rossellini (1945) Roma citta aperta
Vittorio de sica (1948) Ladri di biciclette
Luciano de Giusti (1985) I film di Luchino Visconti Gremese Editore, Roma
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Zannier, Italo (ed) Neorealismo e fotografia. Il Gruppo Friulano per una Nuova Fotografia 1955-1965 Art & Srl, Udine, 1987
HANDOUTS: (must read)
Gough-Yates, Kevin 'The Destruction of Neo-Realism', Films and filming vol 6, no 12. September 1970, pp. 14-22 (photocopy)
Crawford, Alistair Carlo Bevilaqua Il Maestro Aberystwyth 1986
Also available on request photocopy from: Alistair Crawford Mario Giacomelli Cardiff 1983
CINEMA:
PHOTOGRAPHY:
LITERATURE:
Vittorini, E. Uomini e no Mondadori
Pacifici, S. A guide to contemporary Italian literature: from futurism to neorealism Cleveland world Publishing (Medirian books)

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6