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B030661 - FILM HISTORY
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Academic Year 2021-22
Coorte 2021 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PROJECT AND MANAGEMENT FOR CULTURAL ENTERPRISE
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/06 - CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2021 ⇒ 03/12/2021
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course will offer insight into the history of cinema from the XIX to the XXI century. Objective of the course is to invite students to reflect about the role cinema has played in the development of Western modernity and postmodernity.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Sandro Bernardi, L'avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un'arte e di un linguaggio, Venezia, Marsilio, 2013 ed ediz. succ.
Federico Pierotti, Federico Vitella (a cura di), Il cinema dello sguardo. Dai Lumière a Matrix, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019.
Federico Pierotti, Federico Vitella (a cura di), Il cinema dello sguardo. Dai Lumière a Matrix, Venezia, Marsilio, 2019.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding. Basic familiarity with the history of cinema, from the beginning until today, with particular reference to the main periods (cinema of attractions, classical narrative cinema, post-classic cinema, digital cinema) and analytical categories (attraction/narration, analogic/digital, old and new media). Understanding of the major media practices, technologies and social uses of which cinema is part, as well as of their respective functions (entertainment, scientific research, technology).
Applying knowledge and understanding. Ability to put cinematic experience, language and apparatus into an historical perspective. To promote a discussion on the role that cinema played and plays in the development of Western modernity and postmodernity.
Making judgements. To encourage students to acquire a method of moving image analysis, with particular reference to capacity to think about production and reception background, social and historical uses, issues of authenticity and manipulation.
Communication. To use the appropriate terminology to the study of film history, as well as to communicate effectively knowledge related to the discipline.
Lifelong learning skills. Ability to think cinema within a historical epistemology, and acquisition of awareness about the history of cinema as cultural history. Ability to put into historical perspective the main features of contemporary cinema and new media.
Applying knowledge and understanding. Ability to put cinematic experience, language and apparatus into an historical perspective. To promote a discussion on the role that cinema played and plays in the development of Western modernity and postmodernity.
Making judgements. To encourage students to acquire a method of moving image analysis, with particular reference to capacity to think about production and reception background, social and historical uses, issues of authenticity and manipulation.
Communication. To use the appropriate terminology to the study of film history, as well as to communicate effectively knowledge related to the discipline.
Lifelong learning skills. Ability to think cinema within a historical epistemology, and acquisition of awareness about the history of cinema as cultural history. Ability to put into historical perspective the main features of contemporary cinema and new media.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of modern and contemporary history and art history.
Teaching Methods
Lessons in the presence of the teacher (within the limits established by the University) with image, film and video analysis.
In any case, remote attendance will remain possible for the student.
In any case, remote attendance will remain possible for the student.
Further information
Mandatory course enrollment through e-learning website moodle.
Password: welles (valid until October 21st, 2021).
Password: welles (valid until October 21st, 2021).
Type of Assessment
Oral test (in local or remote mode), as it will be established by the University of Florence and the Faculty of Humanities.
The oral test will consist of three questions on the subjects included in the course content. The questions are randomly selected from a shortlist that will be published on the MOODLE website. The oral test will be about twenty minutes long. The grade will be communicated after the test.
The oral test will consist of three questions on the subjects included in the course content. The questions are randomly selected from a shortlist that will be published on the MOODLE website. The oral test will be about twenty minutes long. The grade will be communicated after the test.
Course program
1. Cinema as attraction: the origins of the medium
2. Cinema as storytelling: Hollywood Classical Cinema
3. Cinema as art: avant-garde cinema
4. Cinema as gaze: modern cinema
5. Cinema as game: postmodern cinema
6. Cinema as experience: the digital turn
2. Cinema as storytelling: Hollywood Classical Cinema
3. Cinema as art: avant-garde cinema
4. Cinema as gaze: modern cinema
5. Cinema as game: postmodern cinema
6. Cinema as experience: the digital turn