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History and criticism of the cinema
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U - History and criticism of the cinema
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| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
95.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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0.0 |
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0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
3.0 |
Prerequisites:
None
Educational goals:
To offer an understanding of a period in the history of the cinema. The course will study the films of a director or a cinematographic movement.
Course contents:
The cinema of Luis Bunuel. Among the protagonists of the 1927 Generation, Bunuel began his career inventing the surrealist cinema, with Un chien andalou e L'aged'or. His career then continued in France, in the Usa and in Mexico, where he produced twenty films, some of them mentioned and awarded in international festivals. The last period of his production, which originated the most famous works, was carried out in Europe, mostly in France. Buňuel's cinema shows, in its different periods, the pure subversion operated by imagination and dream, the ability of telling stories following the conventions of industrial cinema, the peculiarity of proposing films which are personal, intriguing, based on narrative frustration. - - - Films: Un chien andalou (1929), L'age d'or (1930), Las Hurdes (1932), Los Olvidados (I figli della violenza, 1950), Viridiana (1961), Belle de jour (Bella di giorno, 1966), La voie lactée (La via lattea, 1969), Tristana (1970), Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Il fascino discreto della borghesia, 1972), Le fantôme de la liberté (Il fantasma della libertà, 1974), Cet obscur objet du désir (Quell'oscuro oggetto del desiderio, 1977).
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Teaching activities:
Lectures, viewing of scenes from the films with commentary, slides
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oral
Students are required to read the texts concerning the director, to know the films with reference to the themes and poetry of the director and to have a general knowledge of the history of the cinema.
Teaching language:
Italian
Other information:
For non-attending students there are no differences in the programme. Some of the films are available at the Centro linguistico and at external archives: Mediateca provinciale (Bergamo), Fondazione Alasca (Bergamo - www.alasca.it). Materials for consultation will be published on the Film Anthology website (www.unibg.it/fa), in a section dedicated to the director. Attending Erasmus students are asked to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course.