FILM STUDIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0665

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Cinema, Photography and Television

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

TRIVELLI Anita

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites: None

Objectives

Learning outcomes
The course concurs to realize the educational goals of the Degree Program by introducing the students to the main concepts of the audiovisual language, through the exploration of significant practices of the international film production. Students progress will be evaluated according to their active participation in the classroom and group discussions as well as their familiarity with the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies. The course aims to provide students with an adequate knowledge on: 1) the outlines of the New International Cinema; 2) the common elements of the film movements under investigation (Nouvelle Vague, Free Cinema, US Avantgarde Cinema, New American Cinema, Neue Welle); 3) their peculiarities, both national and of individual movies. The skills acquired in this class can be used to partecipate in the activities of the prestigious International Film Festivals of Venice and Pesaro, showcases of the most advanced current audiovisual production, as well as the site of precious opportunities to meet international scholars, experts, directors, actors, and other cinema professionals. Attending students and who have successfully passed the course examination are eligible to be accreditated for the above mentioned film festivals. The accreditation badge is valid for all screenings and related activities.

Contents

Contents
Renewal and experimentation in international cinema: from the mastership of Italian Neorealism through the western “New Waves”. Through the analysis of exemplary movies, framed in the age of their realization, the salient formal and thematic features of Nouvelle Vague (France), Free Cinema (UK), US Avantgarde Cinema, New American Cinema (USA), Neue Welle (Germany) will be studied within the international context of the foremost film criticism and theory.

Extended Syllabus

Extended syllabus
Starting from the mastership of Italian Neorealism, the following movements will be explored: Nouvelle Vague, Free Cinema, US Avantgarde Cinema, New American Cinema, Neue Welle, all exemplary currents of the so-called New International Cinema, a crucial phenomenon of renewal in the history of cinema.
The course will investigate the main elements shared by the national cinemas under investigation, such as: the Neorealist mastership, the role of film magazines, the production strategies, the issue of authorship; as well as the distinctive traits of the national cinemas under study, together with their possible interrelationships and mutual influences. Futhermore, this course aims to develop an informed understanding of the cinematic practices under examination, through the analysis of stylistic-formal and thematic motifs of the selected movies, as well as through the scrutiny of critical and theoretical arguments by prominent authors and scholars.
Course readings and discussions of the screened movies will develop the students’ skills in audiovisual analysis and research, as well as their facility with the pertinent terminology of cinema studies, and the study of audiovisual texts.
During the course additional materials to allow for more in-depth studies may be referenced.

Recommended Bibliography

Reference Films & Books

Films:
R. Rossellini, Germania anno zero; F. Truffaut, I quattrocento colpi; J.-L. Godard, Fino all’ultimo respiro; L. Anderson, O’ Dreamland, Everyday Except Christmas; T. Richardson e K. Reisz, Momma don’t Allow; K. Reisz, We are the Lambeth Boys, Sabato sera, domenica mattina; M. Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, Meditation on Violence, The Very Eye of Night; J. Cassavetes, Ombre; R. Frank e A. Leslie, Pull my Daisy; J. Mekas, Guns of the Trees; W. Wenders, Alice nelle città; H. Sanders-Brahms, Germania, pallida madre

Books:
P. Bertetto (edited by), Introduzione alla storia del cinema. Autori, film, correnti, UTET, Torino 2012
A.Trivelli, L’altra metà dello sguardo, Bulzoni, Roma 1998

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods
1) lectures; 2) discussion of the selected audiovisual materials (feature, experimental and documentary films) shown in class. Course readings and discussions of the screened movies will develop the students’ skills in audiovisual analysis and research, as well as their facility with the pertinent terminology of cinema studies, and the study of audiovisual texts. The screenings are in the original language with Italian subtitles.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Assessment methods
An oral examination in the form of an interview will assess whether the student has mastered the course content.
Grades run from 18 through 30/30.
Excellent (27-30/30) will be awarded to those students who achieve a comprehensive understanding of the course content and are able to articulate a specific and original vision of their own, that reflects both a solid proficiency in the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies, as well as in the different cinematic movements and movies that were examined.
Good (22-26/30) will be awarded to those students showing some knowledge of the course content, but who are unable to fully articulate a synthesis of all the materials, as well as fully develop a sophisticated analysis, and use a correct but not always appropriate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies.
Satisfactory (18-21/30) will be awarded to those students showing a basic knowledge of the course content and a supeficial understanding of the different cinematic movements and movies studied, as well as an inaccurate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies.
Insufficient (under 18/30) will be awarded to those students demonstrating an insufficient grasp of the course content, an inaccurate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies, a lack of profiency regarding the different cinematic movements and movies examined, and an inability to analyse them.

Contacts/More Information

https://www.unich.it/ugov/degreecourse/158504#

Further information
Attending the class sessions is not mandatory, but it is recommended; the examination method will be the same both for attending and not-attending students. The viewing of all movies listed in the filmography is required for the examination. Students of other Degree Programs are advised to contact the professor before the beginning of the course, and in any case well in advance of the examination date.
Not attending-students shall integrate the course films and texts on the syllabus with the following additional book: David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Storia del cinema. Un’introduzione, Italian release edited by David Bruni and Elena Mosconi, McGraw Hill, Milano 2010; as well as with the dossier-booklet prepared by the professor.
Not-attending students are advised to contact the professor well in advance of the examination date.
Attending students and who successfully passed the course examination are eligible for accreditation of Venice and Pesaro film festivals.
Furthermore, the professor will give information about artistic and cultural events occuring in our city/region/nation of particular relevance to the course objectives. This information will be readly disseminated via facebook as well (storia e critica del cinema UdA).
For any question students are invited to meet with the professor during her office hours.

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"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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