FORMS AND GENRES OF AUDIOVISUAL NARRATION
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- ALBERTO BOSCHI
- Credits
- 12
- Curriculum
- Comunicazione della cultura e delle arti
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/06
Training objectives
- The course focuses on interdisciplinary themes, such as the relationship between film and literature, music, visual arts etc. More attention is paid here to film genres than to specific film directors.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The students acquire a full knowledge of specific periods and genres of film history, both classic and contemporary.
ABILITIES: at the end of the course the student should be able to contextualize a cinematic work in the frame of the genre system and understand the complex relationship that cinema has always held with other forms of artistic expression. Prerequisites
- None.
Course programme
- CINEMA AND VISUAL ARTS
- Avant-Garde Art and Cinema from Italian Futurism to Pop-Art.
- Paintings in Films: Quotations and Tableaux Vivants.
- Art Biopics: Van Gogh Movies.
- Cinema and Modern Architecture: From Walter Ruttmann to Michelangelo Antonioni. Didactic methods
- In-presence lessons, supported by the use of Power Point presentations and the screening of film scenes.
Full screening of 10 films (one per week) that significantly illustrate the main theme of the course. Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam is oral, and lasts about 15-20 minutes. The students will be asked to reply to some questions (not more than 5) concerning the course topics. Questions may refer both to the contents of the books enumerated in the syllabus and – for those who have attended the classes – to the contents of the lessons. Students may also be asked to relate on the ten films included in the film list.
Reference texts
- BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Costa, "Il cinema e le arti visive", Einaudi, Torino, 2002 (pp. 49-127, 157-210 e 293-362).
FILMOGRAPHY:
The list of films screened during classes will be issued at the beginning of the course.
