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Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
Course code: ITAL2113
Course unit value: 0.5
Throughout its history, Italian cinema has shown a particular interest in the mixing up of fiction and reality through the production of films that combine documentary elements with fictive ones. This course will be focused on examples that move along the whole spectrum between documentary and fictional film. The lectures will provide the students with the historical and social background to the films and with a range of film-critical terminology that will be applied to the material introduced by the course tutor. Furthermore, various topics, such as the cinematic representation of power, the struggle for civil rights, the anthropological analysis of disadvantaged realities and the influence of media, will be investigated and discussed during the lectures and the subsequent seminars.
Assessment: one 2 500 word sequence analysis (50%); and one unseen two-hour written examination (50%).
Tutor: Dr Cristina Massaccesi.
Preparatory reading and set texts: They will be uploaded on Moodle.
