Unit HISTORY AND FILM ANALYSIS I
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- A001560
- Curriculum
- Lingue e letterature
- Teacher
- Alessandro Tinterri
- Teachers
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- Alessandro Tinterri
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alessandro Tinterri
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/05
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italiano
- Contents
- Course of 42 hours: history of cinema from beginning to nowadays, through some representative movies, from silent film to sound picture; film editing.
- Reference texts
- Antonio Costa, Saper vedere il cinema (Bompiani 2011).
Integral view of 5 between following films is requested: Il monello (The Kid) di Chaplin; Io e la vacca (Go West) di Keaton; La corazzata Potëmkine (Bronenosec Potëmkine) di Eisenstein; Berlino sinfonia di una grande città (Berlin Symphonie einer Großstadt) di Ruttmann; I fratelli Skladanovski (Gebruder Skladanovski) di Wenders; Roma città aperta di Rossellini; Viale del tramonto (Sunset Boulevard) di Wilder; Fino all’ultimo respiro (À bout de souffle) di Godard; Effetto notte (La nuit americaine) di Truffaut; Dopo mezzanotte di Ferrario. - Educational objectives
- Learning history of cinema from origins to nowadays.
- Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and to know to tackle the course, particular prerequisites are not requested.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows: lectures will deal with all issues and problems regarding history of cinema; projection of movies and press reports concerning the main topics that will complement the lectures providing different perspectives on the same problem.
- Other information
- International and Erasmus students are invited to take the course. Readings and other course materials are also allowed in English or French or German or Spanish; oral exams may be taken in English or German or French or Spanish. Please contact the instructor for further details and to scedule an appointment during the first week of the Spring Semester.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. The Exam includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts. The test aims at assuring the level of knowledge and understanding, as well as synthesis, achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview will verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, propriety of Language and of exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test itself and begins, as a rule, with a subject of the student's choice in order to put him at ease.
- Extended program
- A century of history of cinema through some representative movies, from silent film to sound picture.