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Codice:  
Course code:
44120-ENG
Anno accademico:
Academic year:
2011-2012
Titolo del corso:
Course title:
Filmology
Modulo:  
Module:
1 - Filmology
Docente 1:
Teacher 1:
GHISLOTTI Stefano
Ruolo Docente 1:
Teacher 1:
Modalitą 1:
Type 1:
Convenzionale
Docente 2:
Teacher 2:
Prof. Blodorn Andreas
Ruolo Docente 2:
Teacher 2:
Modalitą 2:
Type 2:
Convenzionale
Settore scientifico-disciplinare:
Reference sector:
L-ART/06 Cinema, fotografia e televisione
Anno di corso:
Year of degree course:
Facoltą:
Faculty:
Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Modalitą di frequenza:
Type:
Non obbligatoria
Semestre:
Semester:
2
Sottoperiodo:
Sub period:
Numero totale di crediti:
Total credits:
5.0
Carico di lavoro
Workload
Attività frontale:
Lectures:
30.0
Esercitazioni:
Applied activities:
0.0
Studio individuale:
Individual work:
95.0
Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi:
Group work:
0.0
Seminari:
Seminars:
0.0
Laboratori:
Laboratories:
0.0
TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate):
TOTAL:
125.0
Ore di lezione settimanali:
6.0
Prerequisiti:
Prerequisites:
None
Obiettivi formativi:
Educational goals:
Part A: To offer an understanding of methodological, aesthetical and psychological questions involved with the viewing of a film. - - - Part B: To offer an understanding of aesthetical structures, narratological functions and cultural constructions of space, time and identity involved in crime films set in Europe.
Contenuto del corso:
Course contents:
Part A: Basic issues concerning film studies. 15 hours (Ghislotti Stefano) The course will present film studies focusing on the key concepts, on the terminology and on the analysis of shots and scenes. Film production, film form, narration, mise-en-scene, photography, editing and sound will be presented and explained. - - - Films: Our Hospitality (1923) by Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming, Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles, The Maltese Falcon (1941) by John Huston, A Man Escaped (1956) by Robert Bresson. - - - - - Part B: Scenes of Violence? European Places, Culture and Identity in Crime Films. 15 hours (Bloedorn Andreas) The course will focus on the diverse conceptions of space, culture and identity in Europe as represented in crime films - that is in films mainly focusing on crimes, murders and mysteries. Starting with Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic inventions and ways of storytelling, the course will look at various films from the 1950ies up to the present day - first of all at films from Italy, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany and Spain. - - - Films: The Man Who Knew Too Much (USA 1956, Alfred Hitchcock), Blowup (I/GB 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni), Don't Look Now (GB/I 1973, Nicolas Roeg), Insomnia (N 1997, Erik Skjoldbjęrg), Volver (ES 2006, Pedro Almodóvar), The Da Vinci Code (USA 2006, Ron Howard), Angels and Demons (USA 2009, Ron Howard).
Testo di riferimento 1:
Course text 1:
David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art. An Introduction, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2001, chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9. (pagine/pages: 260)
Testo di riferimento 2:
Course text 2:
David Bordwell: Narration in the Fiction Film, The University of Wisconsin Press 1985 [chapter 7: Narration and Space, pp. 99-130]. (pagine/pages: 32)
Testo di riferimento 3:
Course text 3:
Jeffrey Goldstein (Ed.): Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment, Oxford University Press 1998 [pp. 212-226]. (pagine/pages: 15)
Testo di riferimento 4:
Course text 4:
Thomas Leitch: Crime Films (Genres in American Cinema), Cambridge University Press 2002 [chapter 1, pp. 1-17 & pp. 289-308]. (pagine/pages: 37)
Testo di riferimento 5:
Course text 5:
Nicole Rafter: Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2006 [pp. 3-60] - - - Domietta Torlasco: The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film, Stanford University Press 2008 [pp. 1-36]. (pagine/pages: 95)
Metodi didattici:
Teaching activities:
Classroom lectures, viewing and commentary of scenes of the films, slides.
Struttura della verifica del profitto:
Assessment:
orale
oral
Descrizione verifica del profitto:
Students are asked to read the texts regarding the theme, to have a knowledge of the films with reference to aspects of the matters and topics presented during the lectures.
Lingua di insegnamento:
Teaching language:

English
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