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B003277 - HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF THE CINEMA
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Teaching Language
Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Further information
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/06 - CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
19/09/2016 ⇒ 22/12/2016
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Film history: a historical overview from the beginning to contemporary cinema.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
- Sandro Bernardi, L'avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un'arte e di un linguaggio, Marsilio, Venezia, 2007.
- Federico Pierotti, Un'archeologia del colore nel cinema italiano. Dal Technicolor ad Antonioni, ETS, Pisa, 2016.
- Federico Pierotti, Un'archeologia del colore nel cinema italiano. Dal Technicolor ad Antonioni, ETS, Pisa, 2016.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding: basic knowledge of the main periods of film history and understanding of narrative forms and styles of each period.
Applying knowledge and understanding: basic knowledge of film analysis’ methods and understanding of film techniques.
Making judgements: basic analytical skills in the field of film form.
Communication skills: use of proper terms of film analysis, film style and cinematic language.
Learning skills: autonomous use of basic analytical tools for the study of cinematic narration and style.
Applying knowledge and understanding: basic knowledge of film analysis’ methods and understanding of film techniques.
Making judgements: basic analytical skills in the field of film form.
Communication skills: use of proper terms of film analysis, film style and cinematic language.
Learning skills: autonomous use of basic analytical tools for the study of cinematic narration and style.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lessons with projections of film sequences.
Further information
Students must enroll in the course using the e-learning website Moodle.
Password: potemkin
Password will be disabled at the end of the course (November 2nd 2016).
Password: potemkin
Password will be disabled at the end of the course (November 2nd 2016).
Type of Assessment
Written test. Open answers about: a) the subjects discussed during the course; b) slides and films on MOODLE website; c) bibliography and filmography of the course program. The choice of the questions is random and the latter will be chosen among a series of predefined questions that will be published on the MOODLE website. Students will have two hours for the test. The test will be corrected within 15 days.
The modality will be the same for attending and non-attending students. The latter, however, must refer to a different bibliography and filmography. DAMS students will also have a different bibliography and filmography. For further information, please consult the MOODLE website at e-l.unifi.it
The modality will be the same for attending and non-attending students. The latter, however, must refer to a different bibliography and filmography. DAMS students will also have a different bibliography and filmography. For further information, please consult the MOODLE website at e-l.unifi.it
Course program
Types of programs:
a) full-time students
b) part-time students
c) DAMS students
SYLLABUS
1. Early cinema: the cinema of attractions
2. The birth of narrative cinema
3. Soviet Avant-garde cinema
4. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosec Potemkin, Sergej M. Ejzenstejn, 1925)
5. French Avant-garde cinema
6. German Avant-garde cinema
7. Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1919)
8. Classical Hollywood cinema: studio system & star system
9. Classical Hollywood cinema: classic style and authorship
10. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
11. Italian Neorealism cinema
12. New Wave French cinema
13. Italian cinema of the Sixties
14. Red Desert (Il deserto rosso, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
15. The art-cinema in the Sixties
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
17. Contemporary cinema
18. The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999)
a) full-time students
b) part-time students
c) DAMS students
SYLLABUS
1. Early cinema: the cinema of attractions
2. The birth of narrative cinema
3. Soviet Avant-garde cinema
4. Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosec Potemkin, Sergej M. Ejzenstejn, 1925)
5. French Avant-garde cinema
6. German Avant-garde cinema
7. Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1919)
8. Classical Hollywood cinema: studio system & star system
9. Classical Hollywood cinema: classic style and authorship
10. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
11. Italian Neorealism cinema
12. New Wave French cinema
13. Italian cinema of the Sixties
14. Red Desert (Il deserto rosso, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
15. The art-cinema in the Sixties
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
17. Contemporary cinema
18. The Matrix (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999)