Prerequisite: course 1. Exploration of representations of
Italian-American identity in American (U.S.) cinema. Analysis of
both Hollywood and independently produced films, especially as
they represent ethnicity, gender, and social class of Italian
Americans.
Juliana Schiesari is the author of The Gendering of Melancholia:
Feminism, Psychoanalysis and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance
Literature, and co-editor of Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on
Gender and the Italian Renaissance. Her areas of research
include: feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Renaissance and early
modern literature, women’s literature and cultural studies. She
is currently writing a book on the politics of domestication of
women and animals.
