CULTURE CINEMATOGRAFICHE CONTEMPORANEE

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 relationship between cinema and gender troubles.

Frontal teaching with audiovisual support.

The course is bipartite. The first module deals with general issues, with specific references to the contemporary cinematic production. 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)

Texts:

- Il cinema del nuovo millennio. Geografie, forme, autori, a cura di A. Cervini, Roma, Carocci, 2020 (pp. 356).

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

Videolectures:

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

- D. Jarman, The garden (1990);

- D. Cronenberg, M. Butterfly (1993);

- P. Almodóvar, Habla con ella (2002);

- X. Dolan, Les amours imaginaires (2010).

Texts:

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

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.