The course aims to provide students with a set of valuable tools to orient themselves at ease within the framework of film history and its various phases. The focus on language also facilitates comparisons with more recent or contemporary audiovisual media products.
Course Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites. However, to have taken the Theories of Cinema exam (Prof. Federica Villa) in the first trimester is helpful in understanding certain notions better.
Teaching Methods
The course includes classroom lectures and film analyses conducted in the Auditorium di San Tommaso.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam.
Texts
The reference teaching materials for attending students are:
- G. Carluccio, L. Malavasi, F. Villa (eds.), Il cinema. Percorsi storici e questioni teoriche, Carocci 2022 (II ed.), only chapters 1-6 included.
- G. Alonge, Il cinema. Tecnica e linguaggio. Un'introduzione, Kaplan 2017(2nd ed.).
- List of films provided by the professor at the beginning of the course.
Non-attending and Erasmus students must agree on the programme with the professor.
Contents
The course focuses on two specific sides. The historical one considers the development of cinema from the advent of sound to the present day (classic cinema, modern cinema, post-modern cinema, contemporary cinema). Furthermore, the linguistic one, which runs parallel to the first, seeks to describe the main aesthetic transformations of cinema over time
