Italian

Years 12 and 13

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Imagined Italies in Italian Cultural Studies

Ask Mrs Evenden for copy.

This is an up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the study of modern Italian culture containing nineteen chapters by specialists in the field of language, politics, religious, ethnic, and gender identities, the mass media, cultural policy, and stars. Adopting a unique and accessible interdisciplinary focus, Italian Cultural Studies: An Introduction presents a variety of new perspectives on modern Italian culture.

Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Drawing widely from accounts of people across the political spectrum – fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.

Cosa Nostra

Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world’s most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. Ever since it was born in the fragrant lemon gardens of Palermo a century and a half ago, a sworn brotherhood has pursued power by cultivating the simple, terrible art of killing people with impunity.

Novels by Alessandro D'Avenia

See Ms Jennings for guidance.

Alessandro D'Avenia (born 2 May 1977) is an Italian writer, teacher and screenwriter.

Modern Italy Journal

Founded by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in 1995, Modern Italy publishes leading research on the history, politics and social, economic and cultural life of Italy and the Italian peoples from the eighteenth century to the present. All articles are rigorously peer-reviewed, and the journal also publishes themed special issues, recent examples of which are Visual and material legacies of fascist colonialism; Italian populism, ideology, culture and history; Environment and Italianness: Socio-natures on the Move; Italians Beyond Italy/Italy Beyond Italians: Transnational Cultural Strategies and the Construction of Identities.

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News in Slow

Listen to streaming news and culture programming at a pace that aims to be just right.

Italiano Automatico Podcast

Listen to a range of podcasts.

Coffee Break Italian

Listen to a wide range of free podcasts to improve your Italian on the go, where and when it suits you.

Joy Of Languages

Learn Italian the fun way by listening to a range of podcasts.

Podomatic Podcast

In the first of a two part series of special episodes of the @VersusHistory Pocast, we are delighted to be joined by Dr. Dave Brown (@DBrownF6History) for an overview of Benito Mussolini and the key features of the man and his time in office.

Guardare

Italy Made Easy

Watch a range of videos presented by Manu. He has created Italy Made Easy to help English speakers learn to speak and understand Italian with ease.

The YouTube channel delivers videos that help you understand how the Italian language works and how you can communicate with Italian.

Searching for Italy

Watch this BBC series, in which Stanley Tucci (a well known actor) travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country's regional cuisines.

Film: Notte Prima Degli Esami

Notte prima degli esami (English: Night Before the Exams) is a 2006 Italian comedy teen film, written and directed by Fausto Brizzi. It describes the lives of two groups of Italian teenagers during the preparation of the esame di maturità (the final exam of Italian high school). It is set in Rome during the year 1989. The inspiration for the title was a famous 1980s song by Antonello Venditti.[1]

Film: Bianca come il latte,

rossa come il sangue

Leo, a third year high school student, is in love with Beatrice, a French girl a year older than him who he only sees at school or at the bus stop. Leo also has a classmate, Silvia, in love with him. He has known her since childhood and frequents her often and confides in her because he considers her his best friend.

After the Easter holidays, Leo discovers that Beatrice is hospitalized because she is suffering from leukemia. This will lead Leo to do everything to get to know the girl and continue to believe in his dream of her: he decides to become a bone marrow donor, in the belief that he can save Beatrice. But her marrow is not compatible with that of Beatrice and Leo, desperate for her, tries to make her happy and make the girl's dreams come true.

Film:

Cinema Paradiso

Set in a small Sicilian town, the film centres on the friendship between a young boy and an aging projectionist who works at the titular movie theatre. This Italian-French co-production stars Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Salvatore Cascio. The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone and his son, Andrea, marking the beginning of a collaboration between Tornatore and Morricone that lasted until Morricone's death on 6 July 2020.

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Italian Cultural Institute of London

Visit the Italian Cultural Institute of London

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Visit the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in Canonbury Square, North London.

Cinema Italia UK

Visit the Cinema Italia UK situated near London's River Thames by the Hammersmith Bridge

Uffizi Gallery - Virtual Tour

Go on a virtual tour of The Uffizi Gallery which is located in the historical Centre of Florence and is one of the largest and best-known museums in the world. It holds a collection of priceless works, mainly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.

Le Marche

Look out for work experience study trips in Le Marche in Italy.

Come to Scuola Italia in Urbania to have an experience of total immersion in Italian language and culture. Urbania has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants and is in the region of Le Marche, which is tucked into the Apennine Mountains. It is a small ancient medieval village rich in history and renaissance treasures.

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