CINE 470

Fall 2008

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Topics in Italian Cinema
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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Same as ITAL 470. See ITAL 470.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
49580
Lecture-Discussion
G4
1:00PM -2:50PM
TR
114 Transportation Building
Rushing, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/08-12/10/08
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
Grads- 4 hours credit -Topics in Italian Cinema: The Peplum Description: In the late 1950's and early 1960s, there was an explosion of enormously popular Italian films starring American bodybuilders and set in mythical antiquities. With titles like Hercules vs. the Moon Men or Goliath vs. the Dragon, these films are mostly remembered today for their unintentional humor and low production values, and their emphasis on the spectacularly muscled male body means that they are more likely to be shown at gay film festivals than for their original audience: straight teenage boys. The peplum films (as they are known in Europe) offer a rare opportunity to examine a series of key questions: how does a genre like this come to be popular? why did it die off? what does the peplum tell us about the formation of masculinity? what is its sexual orientation, if any? Finally, why have such films returned in the last 5 years (in American, this time), from Gladiator to 300 to Beowulf?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
42985
Lecture-Discussion
U3
1:00PM -2:50PM
TR
114 Transportation Building
Rushing, R
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/08-12/10/08
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Undergrads - 3 hours credit- Topics in Italian Cinema: The Peplum Description: In the late 1950's and early 1960s, there was an explosion of enormously popular Italian films starring American bodybuilders and set in mythical antiquities. With titles like Hercules vs. the Moon Men or Goliath vs. the Dragon, these films are mostly remembered today for their unintentional humor and low production values, and their emphasis on the spectacularly muscled male body means that they are more likely to be shown at gay film festivals than for their original audience: straight teenage boys. The peplum films (as they are known in Europe) offer a rare opportunity to examine a series of key questions: how does a genre like this come to be popular? why did it die off? what does the peplum tell us about the formation of masculinity? what is its sexual orientation, if any? Finally, why have such films returned in the last 5 years (in American, this time), from Gladiator to 300 to Beowulf?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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