[Socrates] NEW COURSE - READING ITALY THROUGH FASHION, CINEMA and the MEDIA (Spring 2014)

eugenia paulicelli epaulicelli at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 08:17:10 EST 2013


*ITALIAN 45/Reading Italy Through Fashion, Cinema and the Media (PLAS,
Cultural Values (CV) and European Traditions (ET) Requirements*



*NEW COURSE    NEW COURSE    NEW COURSE    *

*TTH:  10:45-12:00    Room : Rathaus 208*



*Prof. Paulicelli*





How do we define Italian culture, national identity and the process of
nation building especially today in an increasingly globalized world and
market? How can fashion both as an industry and as symbolic and immaterial
meanings and values contribute to the creation of the Italian nation and
identity? Investigating these and other questions through an analysis of
fashion and the media that have shaped its power and diffusion, the course
focusses on several periods crucial to Italian fashion: the beginning of
the 20th century with futurism and fascism; the post-WWII years when
Italian fashion was launched globally; the 1960s and the economic miracle;
and the triumph of Milan and the pret-a-porter in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The course will conclude with an analysis of the cultural, social and
political landscape of today’s Italy, the challenges of immigration and how
different ethnic groups (Chinese, Indian, Albanian, North African, etc.)
are contributing to Italy’s creative industries and also reshaping and
rethinking nation, identity and urban space. The students will read primary
and secondary sources on the history of Italian fashion and design and
theories of dress, gender and the body in order to critically understand
the connections between the meanings of dress, behaviour, lifestyle, and
technologies of body and mind. The material will be available as PDF files.
Students will be required to do a final project (either a paper or a
digital project) , a midterm exam and give oral presentations on topics
covered in class.


-- 
Eugenia Paulicelli
Professor
Department of European Languages and Literatures
Queens College - City University of New York
Telephone- 718-997-5659

PhD Program in Comparative Literature and Women's Studies Certificate
Program
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
The Graduate Center- City University of New York
Co-Director of the Concentration in
Fashion Studies at the Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Telephone- 212-817-8171



http://liberalstudies.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/faculty-page-eugenia-paulicelli
http://liberalstudies.gc.cuny.edu/mals-track-description-fashion-studies
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