TESTA, CARLO

RMST-345-2023W

This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with ITAL 345.

ITAL-345-2023W

This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with RMST 345.

ITAL-232-2023W

Explore issues of national identity vs. global empire by studying historical, political, literary, cinematographic and cultural evidence from Italy during the country’s five most recent phases: 1) Romanticism and Risorgimento, 2) Imperialism, 3) Fascism, 4) Nation-States, 5) Global Capitalism. View full description. Language of instruction: English

ITAL-385-2023S

Explore Neorealist Italian cinema from the rubble-strewn world of the immediate post-WWII period, including masterly films by Rossellini, Visconti, De Santis and De Sica (and Zavattini).  View full description. Language of instruction: English

ITAL-430-2022W

Explore the great masters of Italian cinema after the Neorealist Age. View full description. Language of instruction: English

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This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with RMST 345.

ITAL-333-2022W

Re-visit the children’s story of ‘Pinocchio’, along with other modern classics, in the light of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s critical dictum: « It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society ». Explore how the individual and society can be (mis)aligned. View full description. Language of instruction: English

RMST-355-2022W

Explore Neorealist Italian cinema from the rubble-strewn world of the immediate post-WWII period, including masterly films by Rossellini, Visconti, De Santis and De Sica (and Zavattini).  This course was previously taught as ITST (Italian Studies) 385 and is currently cross-listed with RMST 355.  View full description. Language of instruction: English

RMST-345-2022W

This course offers students from diverse backgrounds foundational knowledge about the phenomenon of “F-ism” as, in successive incarnations, as it arose and ran its course in the context of neo-Latin societies and cultures. View full description. Language of instruction: English. Cross-listed with ITAL 345.