Course teached as: B029188 - CINEMA E CULTURA VISUALE Second Cycle Degree in PERFORMING ARTS Curriculum PROSMART: PRODUZIONE DI SPETTACOLO, MUSICA, ARTE E ARTE TESSILE
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Module 1: The color revolution: media, visuality, mass culture.
Module 2: The cinema: archaeology of an art (invited teacher prof. José Moure, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, visiting professor in the framework of SAGAS Department’s project of excellence activities).
• Andrea Pinotti, Antonio Somaini, Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
Module 1.
• José Moure, Archeologia degli schermi e delle loro immagini, in Federico Pierotti, Paola Valentini, Federico Vitella (a cura di), Cinema italiano: pratiche e tecniche, in «Quaderni del CSCI», 13, 2017, pp. 13-24.
Module 2.
• Federico Pierotti, La seduzione dello spettro. Storia e cultura del colore nel cinema, Le Mani, Genova, 2012, pp. 213-244 (capitolo Visioni della modernità. Verso un nuovo ordine cromatico).
PART-TIME STUDENTS
1. Andrea Pinotti, Antonio Somaini, Cultura visuale. Immagini sguardi media dispositivi, Einaudi, Torino, 2016.
2. Roberto Diodato, Antonio Somaini (a cura di), Estetica dei media e della comunicazione, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011, only the second part (Estetica dei media, pp. 147-328).
3. One book selected from the following :
o Federico Pierotti, Un’archeologia del colore nel cinema italiano. Dal Technicolor ad Antonioni, ETS, Pisa, 2016.
o Federico Pierotti, Diorama lusitano. Il cinema portoghese come archeologia dello sguardo, Mimesis, Milano, 2018.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding. Advanced knowledge of the history of cinema, from the beginning until today, with particular reference to the main periods (cinema of attractions, classical narrative cinema, post-classic cinema, digital cinema) and analytical categories (attraction/narration, analogic/digital, old and new media). Understanding of the major media practices, technologies and social uses of which cinema is part, as well as of their respective functions (entertainment, scientific research, technology).
Applying knowledge and understanding. Ability to put cinematic experience, language and apparatus into an historical perspective. To promote a discussion on the role that cinema played and plays in the development of Western modernity and postmodernity, as well as an understanding of parts of visual and material culture needed to a historical analysis of cinema
Making judgements. To encourage students to acquire a method of moving image analysis, with particular reference to capacity to think about production and reception background, social and historical uses, issues of authenticity and manipulation.
Communication. To use the appropriate terminology to the study of cinema and visual culture, as well as to communicate effectively knowledge related to the discipline.
Lifelong learning skills. Ability to think cinema within a historical epistemology, and acquisition of awareness about the history of cinema as cultural history. Ability to put into historical perspective the main features of contemporary cinema and new media.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of film history, modern and contemporary history and art history.
Teaching Methods
Lessons with image, film and video analysis.
Further information
Mandatory course enrollment through e-learning website moodle.
PASSWORD: hollywood
The password will be activated on September 17th 2018 and will be disabled at the end of the course (December 17th 2018).
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. Open questions about: a) the subjects discussed during the course; b) slides and films on MOODLE website; c) bibliography and filmography of the course program. The examination will last 30-40 min.
The modality will be the same for full-time and part-time students. The latter, however, must refer to a different bibliography and filmography. For further information, please consult the MOODLE website at e-l.unifi.it
Course program
Module 1. The color revolution: media, visuality, mass culture.
1. Hollywood and colors of mass culture: Hitchcock
2. Hollywood and colors of mass culture (2nd part): Funny Face and the musical
3. Functional colors: Tati
4. Industrial colors: Le Chant du Styrène, Red Desert
5. The social uses of photography: Blow-up
6. Expanded cinema: Gene Youngblood and experimental cinema in the U.S.
7. Between cybernetics and psychedelics: 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Chromatic algorithms and psychedelic culture: video art and computer art
9. Infrared imaging and the aesthetic of false colors
10. Looking back at the color revolution: Mad Men
Module 2: The cinema: archaeology of an art (invited teacher prof. José Moure, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, visiting professor in the framework of SAGAS Department’s project of excellence activities).
1. Cinema and attraction: for a new history of cinema
2. Pre-cinematic devices and archaeology of the screens
3. The birth of the spectator and the origins of film theory
4. The cinematographic idea in literature between XIX and XX century
5. The new visible body of cinema
6. Hugo Münsterberg on film: a psychological art
7. Archaeology of a cinematic figure: the shot-reverse shot
8. Charlot: a cinematographic myth
9. Cinema: an anti-philosophy