ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURE FILM AND LITERATURE

Prof. Fabio Girelli-Carasi
 

ASSIGNMENT due NOVEMEBER 17

DEADLINE is CLASSTIME (3.40 PM)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE

Task 1 required: on the homepage, find the link to the BLOG and leave a comment to the posting.
WARNING: I will delete late comments.

READ the prompts carefully before you post.

Task  2 required:   

CALENDAR: reading Christ in Concrete  and screening  Give Us This Day

  • DUE TUE NOV  17:  screen  Give Us This Day (on Blackboard)

  • DUE THU NOV 19:  pp. 18-61 (includes chapter 6 of "Job")

  • DUE TUE NOV 24:  pp.  62-94 (finish "Job")

  • DUE TUE DEC 1      pp.  97-128 ("Tenement")

  • DUE  THU DEC 3    pp.   excerpts from "Fiesta" (instructions to follow) and the whole chapter "Annunziata" (pp. 199-226)

 

 
Task  3 required:    STUDY GUIDE   Don't skip this document. Read it carefully and apply the suggestions to your reading.
Task  3 required SCREEN

Watch the first 5/10 minutes of GIVE US THIS DAY.

The opening credits mention that the film is based on Pietro Di Donato's Christ in Concrete.

It would have been more accurate to say that the film is VERY LOOSELY BASED on the novel.
From the opening scene, the two main characters, Geremio and Annunziata are quite different from the characters
in the novel. Moreover, the plot of the film has a few marginal similarities in a couple other minor
characters but not much else.

Despite the fact the film was shot about 25 years after the novel came out, it can be
seen as a PREQUEL, where the story PRECEDES the events in the book.