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.
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.
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.
Lectures, screenings and textual analyses
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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.
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
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Television:
For attending students:
C. Freccero, Televisione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino
For non attending students:
C. Freccero, F. Losito, Fata e strega. Conversazioni su televisione e società, ECA, Pescara
Ricevimento: Either after the class or by appointment.
SAVERIO ZUMBO (President)
GABRIELLA PETTI
September 25th
LABORATORY OF CINEMA, ENTERTAINMENT AND TELEVISION COMMUNICATION
Written examination
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Written examination. Students will be asked to answer a few question about the contents of the course
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