Unit HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF THE CINEMA. EDUCATIONAL TRAILS
- Course
- Sciences of education
- Study-unit Code
- A001036
- Curriculum
- Educatore professionale socio-pedagogico
- Teacher
- Francesco Bono
- Teachers
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- Francesco Bono
- Hours
- 36 ore - Francesco Bono
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-ART/06
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course offers an introduction to the history and theory of photography.
- Reference texts
- Graham Clarke, La fotografia. Una storia culturale e visuale, Einaudi, Torino 2009. Claudio Marra, Che cos'è la fotografia, Carocci, Roma 2017. Susan Sontag, Sulla fotografia, Einaudi, Torino 2004. Roland Barthes, La camera chiara. Note sulla fotografia, Einaudi, Torino 2003. Juliet Hacking (a cura di), Fotografia. La storia completa, Atlante, Bologna 2013. Tom Ang, Photography. Il libro completo sulla storia della fotografia, Gribaudo, Milano 2016.
- Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with the necessary skills to use photography as a tool of knowledge and education.
- Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- The course is divided into theoretical and practical lessons.
- Other information
- None.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of a final oral text, i.e. a discussion-interview on the topics of the course. The interview will verify that the student is able to discuss what learnt during the course with method, propriety of language and of exposure. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test itself.
In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. - Extended program
- The course offers an introduction to the history and theory of photography. It is divided into the following didactic units: 1. The origins of photography; 2. The photographic portrait; 3. Landscape photography; 4. Documentary photography; 5. Photography as Art.