HISTORY OF CINEMA AND FILM CRITICISM

The course will introduce the students to the main concepts of film language and film analysis, and will outline the main currents and authors of the history of cinema, from the origins to the eighties.

The course is combined in two parts. The module A focuses on Film history, with specific references to main authors, currents and national schools, from the origins to the eighties. The module B, theoretical and pratical, deals with key concepts in film language. Students must choose a ten film from the list below.

A Features of Cinema History (4 CFU)

Text:

P. Bertetto (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia del cinema. Autori, film, correnti, Torino UTET, 2012 (pp. 432)

B Cinema as a Language (2 CFU)

Text:

M. Ambrosini, L. Cardone, L. Cuccu, Introduzione al linguaggio del film, Roma, Carocci, 2017 (pp. 148).

To pass the exam students must choose at least 10 films from those indicated in this list:

Lumière! (cofanetto Cineteca di Bologna)

Voyage dans la lune (G. Méliès, 1902)

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916)

Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari (R. Wiene, 1920)

Nanook of the North (R. Flaherty, 1922)

Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)

Greed (E. von Stroheim, 1925)

La corazzata Potëmkin (S. Ejzenstejn, 1925)

Un chien andalou (L. Buñuel, 1929)

Susanna (H. Hawks, 1938)

Le jour se lève (M. Carné, 1939)

Ninotchka (E. Lubitsch, 1939)

La Règle du jeu (J. Renoir, 1939)

Citiken Kane (O. Welles, 1941)

Paisà (R. Rossellini, 1946)

Rope (A. Hitchcock, 1948)

Les Quatre Cents Coups (F. Truffaut, 1959)

À bout de souffle (J.L. Godard, 1960)

La dolce vita (F. Fellini, 1960)

Accattone (P.P. Pasolini, 1961)

Il sorpasso (D. Risi, 1962)

The Servant (J. Losey, 1963)

Il Gattopardo (L. Visconti, 1963)

Blow-up (M. Antonioni, 1966)

2001: A Space Odissey (S. Kubrick, 1968)

Nashville (R. Altman, 1975)

Taxi Driver (M. Scorsese, 1976)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (S. Spielberg, 1977)

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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