Italian Studies 597AF - ST-"The Maestri"

This course examines the parallel work of two recognized masters of world cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) and Federico Fellini (1920-1993) between the 1950s and the early 1970s, from their common origins and collaborations to their gradually diverging ways of coping with Italy's progressive modernization and finally to their complementary ideas of the world and of cinema, which have now become global paradigms. Course offered at the 400 and 500 levels, with different course requirements for graduate and undergraduate students.