Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): FMS 001. 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. Not open for credit to students
who have taken HUM 120. GE
credit: ACGH, AH, DD, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2012 Fall Quarter.
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.
