ITALIAN 333

Italian Popular Culture


Please note: this is archived course information from 2020 for ITALIAN 333.

Description

The Italian works of popular culture studied in this course belong to different media and genres and they have all been produced after the 1870s - that is a time in which technological, economic and social situations allowed the production of mass culture.

The course begins with an introduction to the critical debate on the definition and function of popular and high culture. A reading of the pedagogical novel Pinocchio and the viewing of recent adaptations for cinema and television will follow this.

In addition, detective stories, comic books, fotoromanzi and television series will be analysed in an attempt to answer the questions: Do such popular culture artefacts reconcile their consumers to the status quo by entertaining them? Or do they perform a liberating function?

Assessment

Coursework only

Availability 2020

Not taught in 2020

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Franco Manai

Reading/Texts

Readings will be available through CANVAS/Talis.

Assessment

Coursework only

Points

ITALIAN 333: 15 points

Prerequisites

ITALIAN 201 and 15 points from ITALIAN 202, 204, 206, 209, 211, 235, 236

Corequisites

ITALIAN 300

Restrictions

ITALIAN 713