S. Bernardi, L’avventura del cinematografo, Venezia, Marsilio, 2015
Learning Objectives
A Study of Film as Art and Culture. Knowledge of the most interesting periods of film history as a history of art and culture of XX century.
Capability in film analyzing as historical and stylistic matter
Teaching Methods
Lectures, screenings, analysis
Type of Assessment
oral exam. The candidate must have the following skillness:
a) knowledge of the most important periods of film history and understand the singular specific qualities
b) expose his ideas with good knowledge of technical, aesthetic, and cultural language
c) to discuss arguments with specific reference to some case study
Course program
FILMOGRAPHY
Students shall know no less than 12 pictures, chosing among these groups:
1) Antologia delle origini (Louis e Auguste Lumière, George Méliès, Edwin S. Porter);
2) Un film a scelta fra: "The General" (Keaton 1927), "Il cameraman" (Keaton 1928)
3) Un film a scelta fra: "La febbre dell’oro" (Charlie Chaplin, 1925), "Tempi moderni" (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
4) "Un chien andalou" (Bunuel 1929)
5) Un film a scelta fra i seguenti: Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920), Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1922), L'ultimo uomo – L'ultima risata (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1924), Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1926), Lulu (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1928)
6) Un film classico a scelta fra i seguenti: Accadde una notte (Frank Capra, 1934), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), Mister Smith va a Washington (Frank Capra, 1939), Ombre rosse (John Ford, 1939), Via col vento (Victor Fleming 1939), Susanna (Howard Hawks, 1938),
7) Un film d'autore americano fra i seguenti: "Quarto potere" (Welles, 1941), Finemsra sul cortile (Hitchcock 1954
8) Un film neorealista a scelta fra i seguenti: Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943), Paisà (Roberto Rossellini, 1946), Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
9) Un film Nouvelle Vague a scelta fra i seguenti: Fino all’ultimo respiro (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960), Jules e Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
10) Un film a scelta fra i seguenti: Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), Fuori Orario (Martin Scorsese, 1985), Casinò (Martin Scorsese, 1995).
11) Un film a scelta fra i seguenti: "Blade Runner" (Scott, 1981), "Jurassic Park" (1993), Kill Bill (2003)
12) Un film a scelta fra i seguenti: "Waking Life" (Linklater 2001)Collateral (M. Mann, 2004), Miami Vice (M. Mann, 2006), Redacted (De Palma 2007), Inland Empire (Lynch 2006, versione integrale, "Life in a Day" (Scott 2010)