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| CRN | Type | Section | Time | Days | Location | Instructor |
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| 49580 | lecture- discussion | G4 | 01:00 PM - 02:50 PM | TR | room 114 Transportation Bldg | Rushing, R |
| 4 hours Grads- 4 hours credit -Topics in Italian Cinema: The Peplum Description: In the late 1950's and early 1960s, there was an explosion of enormously popular Italian films starring American bodybuilders and set in mythical antiquities. With titles like Hercules vs. the Moon Men or Goliath vs. the Dragon, these films are mostly remembered today for their unintentional humor and low production values, and their emphasis on the spectacularly muscled male body means that they are more likely to be shown at gay film festivals than for their original audience: straight teenage boys. The peplum films (as they are known in Europe) offer a rare opportunity to examine a series of key questions: how does a genre like this come to be popular? why did it die off? what does the peplum tell us about the formation of masculinity? what is its sexual orientation, if any? Finally, why have such films returned in the last 5 years (in American, this time), from Gladiator to 300 to Beowulf? |
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| 42985 | lecture- discussion | U3 | 01:00 PM - 02:50 PM | TR | room 114 Transportation Bldg | Rushing, R |
| 3 hours Undergrads - 3 hours credit- Topics in Italian Cinema: The Peplum Description: In the late 1950's and early 1960s, there was an explosion of enormously popular Italian films starring American bodybuilders and set in mythical antiquities. With titles like Hercules vs. the Moon Men or Goliath vs. the Dragon, these films are mostly remembered today for their unintentional humor and low production values, and their emphasis on the spectacularly muscled male body means that they are more likely to be shown at gay film festivals than for their original audience: straight teenage boys. The peplum films (as they are known in Europe) offer a rare opportunity to examine a series of key questions: how does a genre like this come to be popular? why did it die off? what does the peplum tell us about the formation of masculinity? what is its sexual orientation, if any? Finally, why have such films returned in the last 5 years (in American, this time), from Gladiator to 300 to Beowulf? |
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