OCTOBER LESSONS PROGRAM AT MASARYK UNIVERSITY

Michele Campanini


WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2012

Immigrants Ocean Crossings to North America through Literature and Cinema - the Departure


WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2012

Immigrants Ocean Crossings to North America through Literature and Cinema – the Voyage


WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2012

Immigrants Ocean Crossings to North America through Literature and Cinema – the Arrival


Texts (excerpts provided in pdf):

Michele Campanini_Italian Immigrant Accounts of Ocean Crossings_pp.18-20

Pascal D'Angelo_Son of Italy_pp.45-60

Rosa Cavallieri_The Life of an italian Immigrant_pp.156-171

Robert Louis Stevenson_The Amateur Emigrant_PART 1 pp.13-23

Robert Louis Stevenson_The Amateur Emigrant_PART 2 pp.24-33

Robert Louis Stevenson_The Amateur Emigrant_PART 3 pp.95-106

Filmography (selected sequences to be screended):

The immigrant by Charlie Chaplin (1917)

Titanic by James Cameron (1997)

The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore (1998)

Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese (2006)