HISTORY OF CINEMA AND FILM CRITICISM

Frontal teaching with audiovisual support

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 an in-depth analysis of the relationship between cinema and gender identities.

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 «All we need is love». Cinema, bodies, identities (3 CFU)

Videoletture:

R.W. Fassbinder, The bitter tears of Petra von Kant (1972);

D. Jarman, The garden (1990);

D. Cronenberg, M. Butterfly (1993) ;

P. Almodóvar, All about my mother (1999);

X. Dolan, Laurence Anyways (2012).

Bibliography:

S. Rimini, Every body needs some body. Figure del desiderio e linguaggi della visione, Torino, Kaplan, 2019 (pp. 150);

S. Rimini, Il trucco e l’anima. “M. Butterfly” di Cronenberg e il miraggio della seduzione, in Oh dolci baci, oh languide carezze. La passione amorosa al cinema, a cura di S. Gesù, Catania, Maimone, 2009, pp. 37-42.

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.

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