OVERVIEW

The course aims to provide an adequate knowledge of cinematic and audio-visual language, in its development from the origins of cinema and television to the present day. In order to allow a critical approach of analysis that takes into account the most important historical and theoretical turning points.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The workshop, organized on two distinct modules, aims at providing a specific knowledge on the internal logics, styles and forms of communication characterizing cinematographic and television languages.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide suitable tools for analyzing the audiovisual text, leading to an advanced understanding of it, through the knowledge of the historical developments in language, technology, theory and poetics of cinema, from its origins to the advent of digitalisation.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, screenings and textual analyses

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course is structured through lectures that will also include screenings of movies, or movie clips, which will be analyzed and discussed.

The course will examine the history of cinema from the pioneering era, to the formation and consolidation of cinematic language, and then the establishment of a Hollywood "koiné", the so-called "classical cinema", which was able to impose on different national film industries. The cinema of the historic avant-garde will be considered, as well as the neo-avant-garde of "modern cinema", which intends to question and overcome the film's classicism. Finally, the innovations and problems posed by the digital revolution will be discussed.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cinema:

For attending students: F. Casetti, F, Di Chio, Analisi del film, Milano, Bompiani

For non attending students: A. Mazzoleni, l'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico, Roma, Dino Audino

Further teaching material will be provided by AulaWeb

Television:

For attending students: 

C. Freccero, Televisione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino

For non attending students: 

C. Freccero, Televisione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino

C. Freccero, F. Losito, Fata e strega. Conversazioni su televisione e società, ECA, Pescara

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GIORGIO SIMONELLI (President)

SAVERIO ZUMBO (President)

GABRIELLA PETTI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

September 25th

Class schedule

LABORATORY OF CINEMA, ENTERTAINMENT AND TELEVISION COMMUNICATION

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written examination

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Written examination. Students will be asked to answer a few question about the contents of the course

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

Please visit the AualWeb page for further information