Assignments
Our reading list includes:
 
Henry Bacon, Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay.
Peter Bondanella, The Cinema of Federico Fellini.
Sam Rohdie, Antonioni.
Virginia Wright Wexman, Film and Authorship.
 
Rohdie’s book is, unfortunately, out-of-print, but it will appear in photocopied form in the coursepack, along with two articles on Visconti.
 
Undergraduates will write three short response papers (approximately 3 pp.), one for each director, and a longer final paper (10 pp.) on one director whose works they are particularly interested in.  Final grades are based on the papers (15% total for the response papers; 50%  for the final paper) and attendance and participation (35%). Graduate students will give one oral presentation and write a standard seminar paper.