Italian Studies 597CM - ST- Comedy: Italian Style
Spring
2022
01
3.00
Andrea Malaguti
TU TH 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
38327
Herter Hall room 207
malaguti@frital.umass.edu
38328,38337,38338
The course explores post-WWII Italian comedies to understand how film depicts the social and ethical contradictions of capitalist society through the interactions between men who inevitably face their crisis and women who are the litmus test of such crisis and gradually get more agency. The text is conducted entirely in English.