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2014 January Session Bulletin 
    
2014 January Session Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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CLL 151 - (LT) Studies in Literature: The Celluloid Labyrinth: Venice in the Movies

Semester Hours: 3
This course surveys the long and glamorous history of Venice as a cinematic subject. It will treat movie-made Venice by exploring the contradictions between the real city and the “reel city,” between the city of physical and architectural fact and the city of cinematic desire and fantasy. Films from both Italian and world cinema, especially Hollywood, will be screened in their entirety and subjected to detailed analysis. Among the films to be treated are: Top Hat, Summertime, Senso, Death in Venice, Don’t Look Now, The Anonymous Venetian, Fellini’s Casanova, Dimenticare Venezia, The Comfort of Strangers, Dangerous Beauty, The Wings of the Dove, and Bread and Tulips. Although focused on film analysis, the course will also have a strong interdisciplinary component: cinematic representations of Venice will be constantly compared to those of painting and literature. Furthermore, since the course is given on-site, students will visit the actual shooting locations and use the above-cited films to learn how to “read” Venice itself and to (counter-)map its cinematic geography. The course may used in partial fulfillment of the Special Language Option and to satisfy the LT distribution requirement. With permission, it may also count toward the major in Italian or in film as well as the minor in Italian studies.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May be repeated when topics vary.

January 2014 Offering(s):
10164: January 5-23; Study Abroad: Hofstra in Venice ; Fixell/D’Acierno





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