History of Italian Cinema

Dr. Irmbert Schenk is Professor emeritus at the University of Bremen specializing in Media Studies, European and German Cinema, Film Reception and Media Education. He has also taught in Italy, Argentina and Austria.

• The silent film from 1895 to the 1910s.- Film and Cinema after World War I and under Fascism.- Neorealism.- The 1950s.- The departure of Italian cinema around 1960.- Crisis and new beginning of Italian Cinema.- The cinema of the present.- Concluding remarks.