Unit HISTORY AND FILM ANALYSIS

Course
Communication sciences
Study-unit Code
GP000199
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Alessandro Tinterri
Teachers
  • Alessandro Tinterri
Hours
  • 42 ore - Alessandro Tinterri
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2018
Offered
2019/20
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Metodologie, analisi e tecniche della comunicazione
Sector
L-ART/05
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Course of 42 hours: history of cinema from beginning to nowadays, through some representative movies, from silent film to sound picture; actress Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982); film editing.
Reference texts
Antonio Costa, Saper vedere il cinema (Bompiani 2011).
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; Ingrid Bergman (1915-1928); film editing.
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