For further work in Cinema and Media Studies, students are also encouraged to investigate other courses taught by the resource faculty.
Film screenings add three to four hours per week to class time for the majority of courses.
Using films in which Marcello Mastroianni and Harvey Keitel star, we shall study the diverse concepts of masculinity and ethnicity that these actors embody. All work in English, although Italian Ph.D. students and majors will be expected, in addition to writing a final research paper in English, to read some critical materials and to write a short book review in Italian. One short paper and one long, and a take home exam. The course will rely on people's notions of the everyday, festive days, paradise, arcadia and utopia to pose questions about how people try to realize their wishes and themselves through film. Students will be asked to familiarize themselves with existing approaches to Indian film against the background of more general approaches to film and the media.