This supplementary text for elementary to intermediate courses in Italian is structured around stimulating discussions of ten contemporary Italian films, among them Cinema Paradiso, La vita e bella, Mediterraneo, and Il postino. With a chapter devoted to each movie, the book effectively fosters a deeper understanding of both Italian language and culture, and it is adaptable for any level of language instruction. Italian Through Film features: 
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<li>Films that are easily available from school video libraries or from video stores;</li>
<li>Pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities appropriate to the various films in each chapter;</li>
<li>Grammar review, vocabulary in context, listening comprehension, cultural and historical background, and discussion questions for language practice;</li>
<li>Exercises ranging in difficulty from elementary to highly sophisticated that are designed to enhance students’ vocabulary and cultural awareness as well as oral and written skills;</li>
<li>Boxed sections that provide information about the movie, director, plot, and certain cultural aspects specific to each movie;</li>
<li>Lists of Internet-based activities that expand aspects of each movie by exploring Italian websites.</li>
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Italian Through Film: A Text for Italian Courses

Humor & Entertainment

Borra, Antonello

Pausini, Cristina

Movies

Yale University Press

Interpretazioni is an intermediate- to advanced-level Italian textbook that aims to teach language through film, focusing on Italian movies from 2010 to 2017. Teaching language through cinema is a widespread and proven practice that engages all four main language skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing), and Interpretazioni does so via the proven format and pedagogy of Pausini and Antonello Borra's previous book, Italian Through Film (Yale UP, 2003), which has enjoyed success and is regarded highly among teachers. Films featured in Interpretazioni span genres, address a wide range of themes, and are set in various parts of Italy, encouraging students and teachers to more fully engage with the complexity of Italian cinema. As in Italian through Film, the activities based on the films are divided into three main categories (before, during, and after viewing the film) with a natural progression from warm-up questions, to closed and controlled exercises, to open ended and creative tasks, both oral and written, including grammar practice, all within the context of each single film. An instructor's manual with answer keys and suggestions on using apps for teaching are available on the GUP website.

Interpretazioni: Italian Language and Culture through Film

Arts & Photography

Merolla, Carmen

Photography & Video

Georgetown University Press

Le "Briciole" Della Letteratura : Le Novelle E I Romanzi Di Maria Messina

Bologna, CLUEB

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