"Mapping the Nation: Italian Cinema Across Genres and Locations." Italian cinema is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet rarely has this cinema been tackled as a cartographic device mapping the changes occurring in the nation's cultural, social, physical, and economic landscapes. Expanding upon film studies' recent interest in spatial practices and discussing key films spanning from postwar reconstruction to the present, this course will investigate the multiple ways that cinema has mapped the nation. Does cinema have the power not only to entertain, but also to orient spectators in a country in the throes of change? Art cinema, horror, drama, comedy, musicals, science fiction, westerns, noir … how did these genres map the different locations Italy is made up of?