Dr. Peter Weller and Jordan Ledy

The Second World War leveled a first fascist-then partisan Italy. Allied bombs ruined Rome’s Cinecittà, Europe’s major studio complex, shorting all production resources. Forced to use using real locations, a film movement, now called Neorealism jumped forth as first as punch-back at fascism’s devastation, segueing into narratives social examination of an economic blitz where the poor stayed poor and the rich were all dressed up with no place to go, as their money was useless outside of their country. Liberation not only freed Italy physically and politically but freed film’s depiction of gender relation, previously pinned by a fascist male narrative. While Hollywood, for the most part, still pushed a post-war entertainment dressed in glitz and glamour, Italian film canvassed the changing identity in domestic and social reality within which was examination of the vibrant void between women and men. In this course, four legendary film directors sail us through the revelation of female / male dynamic impelled by the jolt of a devastated but subsequent self-examining post-war Italy.

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