- Sandro Bernardi, L'avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un'arte e di un linguaggio, Marsilio, Venezia, 2007 (chapts. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
- Federico Pierotti, La seduzione dello spettro. Storia e cultura del colore nel cinema, Le Mani, Recco (GE), 2012 (chapts. 1, 3, 5, 8).
Learning Objectives
The course aims to a basic knowledge of the main periods of the film history from early cinema to the "nouvelle vague", with a special focus on the problem of color.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lessons with projections of film sequences.
Further information
Mandatory attendance course for full-time students. Possible dispensations can be allowed for motivated reasons.
Type of Assessment
Written examination with open questions.
Course program
1. Film history in fifteen step: an introduction
2. Introduction to film language (first part)
3. Introduction to film language (second part)
4. The cinema of attractions: the pre-cinema and the Lumière brothers
5. The cinema of attractions: tricks and attractions of early cinema
6. The cinema of attractions: the colored view
7. The narrative cinema: the birth of the film narration in Europe and in the US
8. The avant-garde cinema in Germany: expressionism, kammerspiel and new objectivity
9. The avant-garde cinema: the power of the black-and-white images
10. The Hollywood classical cinema: the studio system and the star system
11. The Hollywood classical cinema: the classical style and the problem of auteurship
12. The Hollywood classical cinema: the introduction of Technicolor
13. Cinema and modernity: the Italian Neorealism
14. Cinema and modernity: the French New Wave
15. Cinema and modernity: towards a new chromatic order
BIBLIOGRAFIA
a) Sandro Bernardi, L'avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un'arte e di un linguaggio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2007. Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (fino a p. 233).
b) Federico Pierotti, La seduzione dello spettro. Storia e cultura del colore nel cinema, Recco (GE), Le Mani, 2012. Chapters: 1, 3, 5, 8.