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 will be available on the GUP website.
About the Author Cristina Pausini is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Italian Language Program at Tufts University.
Previous books include Italian Through Film, Italian Through Film: The Classics, and Trame.
Carmen Merolla is a Full-Time Lecturer of Italian at Tufts University.
Previous publications include the testing program of Caleidoscopio, by Daniela Bartalesi-Graf and Colleen Ryan.
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Georgetown University Press Interpretazioni: italian language and culture through film, paperback/cristina pausini
