History, Anthropology, Religions

Images of America America is the sum of the images that have brought it back to us, primarily cinematographic images, but also pictorial and photographic: from Edward Hopper to Walker Ewans, from John Ford to Orson Welles to Clint Eastwood to Sofia Coppola. But America is also the sum of the stories, practices, ideas, and categories that have represented it, starting with that of "action." Exploring the theme of “praxis” and its connection to images, the question that will run through the course will be “What is America the name of?”

Bibliography R. De Gaetano, La scena americana. Filosofia, letteratura, cinema, Mimesis, Milano R. W. Emerson, Fiducia in se stessi, Piano B, Prato M. Strand, Edward Hopper. Un poeta legge un pittore, Donzelli, Roma Filmography Ombre rosse (Stagecoach, 1937) di J. Ford L’infernale Quinlan (Touch of Evil, 1958) di O. Welles Paterson (2016) di J. Jarmusch L’inganno (The Beguiled, 2017) di S. Coppola Monrovia (2018) di F. Wiseman Il corriere-The Mule (2018) di C. Eastwood

Images of America America is the sum of the images that have brought it back to us, primarily cinematographic images, but also pictorial and photographic: from Edward Hopper to Walker Ewans, from John Ford to Orson Welles to Clint Eastwood to Sofia Coppola. But America is also the sum of the stories, practices, ideas, and categories that have represented it, starting with that of "action." Exploring the theme of “praxis” and its connection to images, the question that will run through the course will be “What is America the name of?”

Bibliography R. De Gaetano, La scena americana. Filosofia, letteratura, cinema, Mimesis, Milano R. W. Emerson, Fiducia in se stessi, Piano B, Prato M. Strand, Edward Hopper. Un poeta legge un pittore, Donzelli, Roma Filmography Ombre rosse (Stagecoach, 1937) di J. Ford L’infernale Quinlan (Touch of Evil, 1958) di O. Welles Paterson (2016) di J. Jarmusch L’inganno (The Beguiled, 2017) di S. Coppola Monrovia (2018) di F. Wiseman Il corriere-The Mule (2018) di C. Eastwood