ITALIAN LEVEL 1 – READING LIST
All reading lists are available via the university library’s website and via the VLE
ITALIAN LANGUAGE MODULES
ITAL1010. Italian Language A (advanced)
Textbook:
Affresco italiano B1, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri, by Maurizio Trifone, et al. (Milan:
Mondadori Education, 2008 and following editions).
Consultation:
English grammar for students of Italian, by Sergio Adorni and Karen Primorac (Ann Arbor,
US: Olivia & Hill Press, 1993 and following editions).
ITAL1030. Italian Language B (beginners), semester 1
Textbooks:
Affresco italiano A1, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri, by Maurizio Trifone, et al. (Milan:
Mondadori Education, 2008 and following editions).
Affresco italiano A1, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri. Quaderno per lo studente, by
Maurizio Trifone, et al. 2008, (Milan: Mondadori Education, 2008 and following editions).
Consultation:
English grammar for students of Italian, by Sergio Adorni and Karen Primorac (Ann Arbor,
US: Olivia & Hill Press, 1993 and following editions).
ITAL1035. Italian Language B (beginners), semester 2
Textbooks:
Affresco italiano A2, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri, by Maurizio Trifone, et al. (Milan:
Mondadori Education, 2008 and following editions).
Affresco italiano A2, Corso di lingua italiana per stranieri. Quaderno per lo studente, by
Maurizio Trifone, et al. 2008, (Milan: Mondadori Education, 2008 and following editions).
Consultation:
English grammar for students of Italian, by Sergio Adorni and Karen Primorac (Ann Arbor,
US: Olivia & Hill Press, 1993 and following editions).
ITALIAN CONTENT MODULES
ITAL1024. Italian Cinema and Film Studies. An Introduction
Films studied
1860 (Alessandro Blasetti, 1933)
I soliti ignoti (Mario Monicelli, 1959)
Mio fratello è figlio unico (Daniele Luchetti, 2007)
Reading List
Core texts:
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (2000). Film Art: An Introduction, 6th edition (McGraw
Hill), pp. 59-109, 156-326
Andrew Dix (2008). Beginning Film Studies (Manchester University Press), pp. 192-267
Dyer, Richard (2007). ‘Italian Cinema’, in The Cinema Book, ed. by Pam Cook (London:
BFI), pp. 231-2
Secondary texts:
Apart from the readings in the course handbook, the following may be useful:
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson (2003), Sections on Italian cinema in Film History: An
Introduction (McGraw-Hill)
Bondanella, Peter (2009). ) A History of Italian Cinema (New York: Continuum)
Brunetta, Gian Piero (2008) The History of Italian Cinema (Princeton: Princeton University
Press)
Landy, Marcia (2000). Italian Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Marcus, Millicent (1986). Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (Princeton: Princeton
University Press)
_____________ (2002). After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press)
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey (ed.) (1995). Sections on Italian cinema in The Oxford history of
World Cinema (Oxford: Clarendon press)
Sorlin, Pierre (1996). Italian National Cinema (London: Routledge)
Wagstaff, Christopher (1996). ‘Cinema’, in Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction, ed. by
David Forgacs and Robert Lumley (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 216-232.
_________________ (2007). Italian Neorealism: An Aesthetic Approach (Toronto: Toronto
University Press)
Wood, Mary P. (2005). Italian Cinema (Oxford: Berg)
ITAL1034. Art and Literature in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. An Introduction
For the full weekly schedule see: http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/index.php?sess=201213
Preparation and background reading for Week 1:
Dante Alighieri : four political letters, translated by C. E. Honess (London: MHRA, 2007)
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence, translated by D. E. Bornstein (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986)
V. Fumagalli, Landscapes of fear: perceptions of nature and the city in the Middle Ages,
translated by S. Mitchell (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994)
J. K. Hyde, Society and Politics in Medieval Italy: The Evolution of the Civil Life, 1000-1350
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1973)
J. Larner, Italy in the age of Dante and Petrarch, 1216-1380 (London & New York: Longman,
1980)
D. Waley, The Italian City-Republics, 3rd edition (London & New York: Longman, 1988)
ITAL1040. Italy from Fascism to the Present
A week-by-week reading list is available at:
http://lib5.leeds.ac.uk/rlists/broker/?bbModuleId=201415_5258_ITAL1040&bbListId=_26566
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Textbook:
Jonathan Dunnage,Twentieth Century Italy : A Social History (London: Longman/Pearson
2002)
ITAL1085. Skills and Issues in Italian Studies
Materials will be distributed in class by the tutor. As a preparatory reading the following text
is recommended:
Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis (Cambridge MA – London England: MIT University
Press, 2015)
ITAL1094. Fictions of Fascism
Textbook:
Carlo Lucarelli, Carta Bianca, Palermo: Sellerio
Consultation Material:
Horsley, Lee, Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction, Oxford University Press, Oxford – New York
2005.
Sangiorgi, Marco – Telò, Luca (a cura di), Il giallo italiano come nuovo romanzo sociale,
Longo, Ravenna 2004.
Kracauer, Siegfried, Der Detektiv-Roman, in Schriften I, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a. M. 1971, tr.
fr. Le roman Policier, Éditions Payot & Rivages 2001 [1981].
Petronio, Giuseppe (a cura di), Il Punto su il romanzo poliziesco , Laterza, Roma 1985.
Rachman, Stephen, Detective Novel, in Peter Melville Logan (ed.), The Encyclopedia of the
Novel, 2 Vols., Wiley-Blackwell, Malden (MA) – Oxford 2011, Vol. I, pp. 241-245.
Rzepka, Charles J., Detective Fiction, Polity Press, Cambridge – Malden (MA) 2005
Rzepka, Charles J. - Horsley, Lee, A Companion to Crime Fiction, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden
(MA) 2010.
Scaggs, John, Crime Fiction, Routledge, Abingdon – New York 2005.