42563 - Film Analysis (1)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the specific knowledge to confront the main issues of film analysis from the origins to the present-day. A basic cultural competence allowing a critical analysis of films from a thematic and stylistic viewpoint, built on pinpointing the very filmic procedures. Therefore a participation to the course is recommended to all who are interested in film-study from the viewpoint of professionals in the field of cinema critique and audio-visual authoring.

Course contents

SYLLABUS: "From the image of reality to reality-image"

A methodology that is neither historical nor theoretical, but only analytical, a clear-eyed view provided to the participants through the constant use of projections.

Movies especially chosen from the time of silent films to present-day are going to be segmented to focus on the development of cinema image, the result of a "flammable passion", delusively tending to make a "window" to the world out of the big screen, with all its expressive potentials, until its fragmentation in modern times and rebirth in the contemporary age as autonomous image in the end, characteristic of twentieth century, that is not confined anymore within the profilmic event. An image-reality of unthinkable worlds of light, impossible to represent until present-day, an image more and more oriented to give a glimpse of the infinite horizons of an elsewhere.

Therefore, during classes, specialists and professionals especially chosen are going to be invited.

Readings/Bibliography

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ORAL  EXAM

*G.Rondolino, D.Tommasi "Manuale del film Linguaggio-racconto-analisi",Utet,Torino, 2008

*C. Vogler (1992) trad. it. "Il viaggio dell'eroe", Dino Audino, Roma, 1999.  

*L. Guerrini, A. Papi - ( saggio su K. Munk e  C. Th. Dreyer  in corso di pubblicazione) 

*Chose one book from the following list:

F. Casetti, F. Di Chio, "Analisi del film",Bompiani, Milano, 1990.

R. Bellour ( 1995) trad. it L'analisi del film, Kaplan, Torino, 2005.

R. Odin(2000) trad. it. "Della finzione", Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2004

R. Altman(1999) trad. it "Film/Genere",Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2004 

S. Chatman (1978) trad. it."Storia e Discorso, La struttura narrativa nel romanzo e nel film" Pratiche, Parma,1980. 

N. Burch(1990) trad. it. "Il lucernaio dell'infinito. Nascita del linguaggio cinematografico"Pratiche, Parma,1994.

D. Cassani, Il manuale del montaggio, Utet , Torino, 2000.

M.Chion (1990)" Audiovisione" Lindau, Torino,2000.   

C.Vicentini, "L'arte di guardare gli attori, Manuale pratico per lo spettatore di teatro ,cinema , televisione", Marsilio, Venezia,"2007.

B. Brown  "La fotografia nel film "I, II Vol. Dino Audino, Roma, 2004

.BASIC FILMOGRAPHY FOR ORAL EXAM

*It's necessary to know  the  following list  of 8 films. They will be screened every week on Friday at 1 p.m.. in Via Mascarellla 44 (tel. 051 255238)
1)"La terra trema- Episodio del mare". di L.Visconti ( 1948)
2)"Settimo sigillo" (Det sjunde inseglet) di I. Bergman (1956)
3)"Blow up"di M. Antonioni (1966)
4)"Lancillotto e Ginevra"(Lancelot du Lac)di R. Bresson (1974)
5)"Je vous salue, Marie" di J.L.Godard (1985)
6)"Lo sguardo di Ulisse"(To vlemma tou Odyssea) di T. Anghelopulos (1995)
7)" Il gladiatore"(Gladiator)di R. Scott (2000)
8)"L'albero della vita"(The fountain) di D. Aronofsky (2007)
* It's necessary to know the following two films of C. Th. Dreyer for the monographic section of this programme ( It's possible to find the films in Videoteca DAMS )
 "Ordet" (1954) Dies Irae (1943)
Chose 10 films from the following filmography list ( It's possible to find the films in Videoteca DAMS )
( via Barberie n. 4 a Bologna tel. 051 2092008): 
-Robert J. Flaherty
-Dziga Vertov
-Jean Renoir
-Luis Bunuel
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Akira Kurosawa
- Roberto Rossellini
-Alain Resnais
-Werner Herzog
-Wim Wenders
-Stanley Kubrick
-Quentin Tarantino

REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. Russo,Wim Wenders percezione visiva e conoscenza, Le Mani, Genova, 1977. W.Wenders, L'atto di vedere, UBU, Milano, 2002.
S. Arecco A. Resnais o la persistenza della memoria, Le Mani, Genova, 1997.
AA.VV., Roberto Rossellini. Il mio metodo, Marsilio, Venezia, 1987.
R. Bresson , Note sul cinematografo, Marsilio, Venezia, 2003.
I. Bergman, Immagini, Garzanti, Milano, 1992.
AA.VV. , Igmar Bergman ( a cura di A. Costa), Marsilio ed., Venezia, 2009
G. Rondolino, Visconti, UTET, Torino, 1981.
A. Solmi, Tre maestri del cinema,Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 1956. //  L.Guerrini, “Johannes Ordet”, in AA.VV., Per Dreyer. Incarnazioine del cinema , Castoro, Milano 2004.
N. Ranieri, Amor vaqui. Il cinema di Michelangelo Antonioni, Métis, Chieti, 1990.
S. Bernadi, "Kubrick e il cinema come arte del visibile", Pratiche Ed., Parma,199
P. M. Minucci (a cura di), Theo Angelopoulos, Revolver Libri, Bologna, 2004.
A.Canziani, "Durante e dopo il film", Bulzoni , Ed. Roma, 1988 
A. Moscariello "Nouvele Vague" Dino audino ed. Roma. 2009.
G. Paganelli, Segni di vita- Werner Herzog e il cinema,  il Castoro , Milano, 2008.
G. Rondolino , Rossellini, Il Castoro , Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1974.
P.Montani , Dziga Vertov, Il Castoro, Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1975.
A. Cattini,  Louis Bunuel, Il Castoro, Milano, 2006.
P. Bertetto ,Alan.Resnais Il Castoro, Nuova Italia, Firenze , 1981.
A. Napolitano, Robert Flaherty, Il Castoro Cinema, Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1975.
V. Zagarrio, "Quentin Tarantino, Marsilio ed., Venezia, 2009.
J. Renoir " La mia vita e i miei film", Marsilio ed. Venezia , 1992.
A. Bazin, " Jean Renoir , Da Capo Press, 1992 (versione inglese)
P.Duncan "Tutti i film di Alfred Hitchcock", Lindau, Torino, 2001.

Assessment methods

In oral form only and through a talk with the professor based on the knowledge of the 20 movies in filmography and of the books in basic bibliography. It is important that the student shows the ability to apply the concepts he has learned from books (or from in-depth analysis during classes) to the movies themselves.

Knowledge of a book chosen from reference bibliography will be required to non-attending students.

Candidates for a degree can agree with the professor before final exam about a specific program to enrich their curricula.

Teaching tools

Office hours

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