NeMLA 2017

48th Annual NeMLA Annual Convention

Baltimore, MD: March 23-26, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

Teaching Italian Culture through Film (Roundtable)

Courses on cinema are quite popular in higher education, as students live media-intensive existences and are increasingly fascinated by visual images. Teaching film has been approached in several publications by the Modern Language Association (MLA) with titles such as Teaching Film, edited by Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro (2012). Furthermore, scholars have published extensively on film, producing monographs and edited volumes that can be adopted in a standard 15-week semester, and which often approach the subject thematically and through interdisciplinarity. In this way, instructors teaching Italian film have access to several volumes, from Millicent Marcus’s classic Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (1987) to a more general survey edited by Giorgio Bertellini, The Cinema of Italy (2005), just to name a couple. The goal of this roundtable is to discuss different approaches toward teaching Italian culture through film to undergraduate students both in Italian and in English, evaluating thematic approaches and assessment as tools for successful classes. SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16195
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