FRN & ITL

FRN320 Studies in French Cinema
For Professor Durand's latest course offerings, click below.  Please note that these courses *ARE* taught IN ENGLISH.

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand/320aindex.html
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand/let151index.html

  Study of major French/Francophone film genres and of prominent French/Francophone directors. Emphasis varies according to topic selected by instructor, and could be for example: (a) the films of Luc Besson (b) French Comedy, or (c) Survey of French Cinema.

The courses below are offered on a regular basis:

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand/320index
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand/320bindex

Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand,
Assistant Professor of French and Film Studies 
Director, URI in Marseille 
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/durand
Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures 
University of Rhode Island 
Kingston, RI 02881-0812 - USA 
Phone: 401-874-4708, FAX: 401-874-4694

ITL315 Italian Cinema
Italy is renowned throughout the world for its cinematic accomplishments.
In this course we will be studying Italian films primarily as a way to
learn more about Italian culture and history; we will also discuss
individual Italian directors' visions of cinema as art form. The course
will present a survey of Italian cinema, from the first masterpieces of the
neorealist tradition to contemporary films. We will view ten
representative films including Rossellini's "Open City," De Sica's "Bicycle
Thief," Fellini's "La strada", Antonioni's "Red Desert," Pasolini's
"Teorema," Bertolucci's "The Conformist," and Benigni's "Life is
Beautiful," among others. We will focus in particular on the ways in which
the neorealist movement has influenced and informed Italian moviemaking
over the course of fifty years. We will examine the ways in which Italians
have viewed/portrayed themsleves: in the midst of war and in the aftermath
of war; as a united community and as isolated individuals; as people driven
by opportunism and by solidarity; as a nation and as a divided land.
For more information contact the instructor, Cat Sama: csama@uri.edu
A reminder: if you are interested in the course and have not taken the
prerequisites ITL 205 or 206, please contact me for permission to take the
class. If you are not an Italian major or minor, this course will count
as a general elective; it does not fulfill your language requirement or
culture cluster option.