HISTORY OF CINEMA AND FILM CRITICISM

Provide students with an up-to-date outline of the trends of contemporary cinema, with particular insights dedicated to the theoretical debate, and to the so-called cinema of the real.

The course is bipartite. The first module deals with general issues, with specific references to the contemporary theoretical debate. The second module is dedicated to a study on the so-called cinema of the real.

A Between History, Criticism and Theory (3 CFU)

Text (one of your choice):

- G. Carluccio, L. Malavasi, F. Villa (a cura di), Il cinema. Percorsi storici e questioni critiche, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (pp. 353).

- A. D’Aloia, R. Eugeni (a cura di), Teorie del cinema. Il dibattito contemporaneo, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2017 (pp. 408).

B To Invent the true. Around the cinema of the real (3 CFU)

Film:

A. Marazzi, Un’ora sola ti vorrei (2002);

A. Rohrwacher, Corpo Celeste (2011);

M. Garrone, Reality (2012);

G. Rosi, Sacro GRA (2013);

L. Di Costanzo, L’intrusa (2017).

Bibliography:

D. Dottorini, La passione del reale. Il documentario e la creazione del mondo, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2018 ;

D. Zonta, L’invenzione del reale, Milano, Contrasto, 2017 (pp. 7-12, 13-32, 53-74, 165-211).

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.