LIT 225 - (D) Monsters, Aliens, and Superheroes: The Other in French and Italian Cinema

3 cr.

This course explores how the issues of exceptionality, aberration, and deviation from established social and cultural norms are represented in French and Italian Cinema across different time periods. Course will focus on marginality based on gender, immigration, disability, age, as well as monstrosity in a literal and figurative sense.