M, 3:35 PM-5:30 PM, Location: TBA

Meets with FRIT-M 565

Open to Graduates Only!

Instructor: Peter Bondanella
E-Mail: bondanel@indiana.edu
Office: Ballantine Hall 622
Phone: 855-3127

This course will examine important adaptations of literary texts by
major Italian directors.  The literary texts will include both
Italian works and works from classical and contemporary literature
outside Italy.  The class will focus on the following films and the
following texts:

Literary sources:  Euripides, MEDEA (adaptation: Pasolini, MEDEA);
Petronius, SATYRICON (adaptation: Fellini’s SATYRICON); Lampedusa,
THE LEOPARD (adaptation: Visconti’s THE LEOPARD); Bassani, THE
GARDEN OF THE FINZI CONTINI (adaptation: Vittorio De Sica’s THE
GARDEN OF THE FINZI CONTINI); Carlo Levi, CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI
(adaptation: Francesco Rosi’s CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI);
Cortazar, “Blow Up” (adaptation: Antonioni’s BLOW UP); Borges, “The
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero” (adaptation: Bertolucci’s THE
SPIDER’S STRATAGEM); James Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
(adaptations: Visconti’s OBSESSION and Antonioni’s STORY OF A LOVE
AFFAIR); Thomas Mann’s DEATH IN VENICE (adaptation: Visconti’s DEATH
IN VENICE).

Italian literary sources will be ordered in Italian for Italian
graduate students.  All materials will be available in English at
least in the reserve room, although students who read Spanish or
German are urged to consult Borges, Cortazar, and Mann in the
original language.

Requirements: several class presentations (analysis of a film and a
literary text) plus an essay of approximately 15-20 pages involving
research.