MLAN 2610
 ITAL 3610

Italian Literature in Translation

Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi

 Assignment    Oct 28
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VIDEO LECTURE: BOCCACCIO, the DECAMERON, PASOLINI

 

 

Writing  1) Type your notes about the video lecture on Decameron (bullet list.)

Writing  2)   WARNING ABOUT THE FILM THE DECAMERON 

WRITE A STATEMENT acknowledging that YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED that the film Decameron (on Blackboard) is rated R, with sexual content and scenes of nudity, especially (since it's still rather unusual) frontal male nudity; and that you are not required to screen the film (see below).

In the words of one of the characters, IT IS NOT A SIN!
This is Pasolini's attitude toward sex.
The scenes with sexual content are very brief and do not indulge in details.
The erotic content is minimal.
Sex is described for what it is in its instinctive nature and essence: a physiological drive.

IF YOU OBJECT TO BEING EXPOSED TO NUDITY AND DEPICTION OF SEX, HERE IS A LIST OF THE EPISODES AND THE BEGINNING TIMES: IT IS YOUR DECISION IF YOU WANT TO

  • SKIP THE ENTIRE FILM

  • SKIP THE SCENES WITH SEXUAL CONTENT.
     

1) 00.00

2) 23.30 nudity, sexual content

3) 37.30 nudity, sexual content

4) 43.13

5) 56.57

6) 1.03.00 nudity, sexual content

7) 1.11.45

8) 1.13.47 some nudity at the beginning, then G

9) 1.28.00 OK at the beginning, then nudity and sexual content starting at 1.37.50

10) 1.39.05

11) 1.41.30 some nudity and sexual content at the beginning, then G

 

DUE WED OCT 30   You can complete the next two assignment by Oct 28 or you can wait to send them in by Oct 30.

Writing  3) Choose one of the stories and argue if the content matches my critical analysis of Pasolini's film. I welcome and encourage disagreements with my perspective, indeed I am eager to read good argument with a different point of view.

Writing  4) Pasolini himself is a character in the film, namely he plays the Master, the painter trained by Giotto. The Master leaves the third panel of the fresco's triptych incomplete. Is it some kind of message by Pasolini the author to the audience? What is the meaning of the very last sentence he pronounces in the film?