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CINEMA WORKSHOP, SPECTACLE AND TELEVISION COMMUNICATION

CODE 104828
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 6 cfu during the 3nd year of 8752 SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE (L-20) - SAVONA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-ART/06
    LANGUAGE Italian
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • SAVONA
  • SEMESTER 1° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    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 laboratory aims to offer to students an opportunity to learn specific tools, linked with the main areas of the entertainment disciplines. In particular, the laboratory focusing on television and cinema 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

    Cinema

    Lectures, screenings and textual analyses

    Television

    The course includes lectures, analysis of TV texts projected in the classroom, and testimonies from professionals.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Cinema

    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.

    Televison

    The course includes lectures, analysis of TV texts projected in the classroom, and testimonies from professionals. Program and content:

     1. Who invented live broadcasting? technology and linguistic evolution of TV

     2. What we talk about when we talk about TV: the three models of television broadcasting.

     3. Is it true that Italians still inform themselves mainly through TV? The news and other information formats.

     4. Sports from public TV to platforms (and back to public TV for the 2022 World Cup).

     5. Have TV series taken the place of movies? some history of TV drama.

     6. TV was born in radio. The transformation of radio genres to television.

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Cinema:

    - G. Rondolino, D. Tomasi, Manuale del film. Linguaggio, racconto, analisi, Torino, UTET
    - A. Mazzoleni, L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico, Roma, Dino Audino

    Further teaching material will be provided by AulaWeb

     

    Television:

    - R. Sodi, C'era una volta il monoscopio, Milano, EMUSE

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    GIORGIO SIMONELLI (President)

    SAVERIO ZUMBO (President Substitute)

    LESSONS

    LESSONS START

    September 29th. 2022

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The exams will consist of a written test.

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Please visit the AualWeb page for further information