S. Bernardi, L’avventura del cinematografo, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011
Learning Objectives
A Study of Film as Art and Culture
Teaching Methods
Lectures, screenings, analysis
Type of Assessment
oral exam
Course program
FILMOGRAPHY
Students shall know no less than 12 pictures, chosing among these groups:
1) (Louis e Auguste Lumière, George Méliès, Edwin S. Porter);
2) Griffith: Broken Blossom (1919)
3) Gold The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925), Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936); The General (Buster Keaton, 1927), The cameraman (Buster Keaton, 1928)
4) Strike (Sergej M. Ejzenstejn, 1925) The Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926) o The man with the camera(Dziga Vertov, 1929),
5) Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
6) The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920), Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1922), The Last Man(Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1924), Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926), Lulu (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1928)
7) Un film classico a scelta fra i seguenti: It Happened one Night(Frank Capra, 1934), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), Mister Smith goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939), Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming 1939), Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938),
8) Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943), Paisà (Roberto Rossellini, 1946), Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
9) A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960), Jules e Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
10) Citizen Kane(Orson Welles, 1941), Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock 1954),
11) Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969),
12) Un film a scelta fra i seguenti: Collateral (M. Mann, 2004), Miami Vice (M. Mann, 2006), Redacted (De Palma 2007), Inland Empire (Lynch 2006, versione integrale)