- Docente: Cristina Bragaglia
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)
Learning outcomes
The student has an in-depth knowledge about the relationships between literary and cinematographic texts. He's able to use instruments and critical methodologies to analyze the connections between the two languages.
Course contents
Characters between Literature and Cinema
During the course we will analyze in the way the filmakers transform the literary work , focusing the relations between the characters, structures and objects, how they mold the characters, how they add richness to their portrait, how they reconstruct the latent subtexts and how they shape visually and aurally the verbally articulated descriptions of characters.
Readings/Bibliography
Texts for the students of "Cinema e letteratura" (LM):
Giorgio Tinazzi, La scrittura e lo sguardo. Cinema e letteratura, Venezia, Marsilio, 2010.
Vincenzo Buccheri, Lo stile cinematografico, Roma, Carocci, 2010.
Mariapia Comand, I personaggi dei film, Venezia, Marsilio, 2013
Every student will be allow to agree with the professor a list of alternative texts.
Added text for those students who don't attend the course:
Dario Tomasi, Cinema e racconto. Il personaggio, Torino, Loescher 1988 (the book is available only in libraries)
The students who don't attend the course have to watch 5 movies (at least 2 related to character) among those deeply analyzed in the texts.
At the exam the students have to bring the list of the chosen movies
The attendance (also for the past courses) is valid only for a year from the first examination session after the end of the course.
Texts for the students of History of Cinema (LM):
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Storia del cinema, Venezia, Marsilio, 2005.
Mariapia Comand, I personaggi dei film, Venezia, Marsilio, 2013
Added text for those students (LM) who don't attend the course:
Dario Tomasi, Cinema e racconto. Il personaggio, Torino, Loescher 1988 (the book is available only in libraries)
The students who don't attend the course have to watch 5 movies (at least 2 related to landscape) from the following list:
Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Bronenosec Potëmkin (1925) by Sergej M. Ejzenštejn
Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang
Modern Times (1936) by Charlie Chaplin
Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Howard Hawks
Le quai des brumes (1938) by Marcel Carné
Gone With the Wind (1939) by Victor Fleming
Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles
Paisà (1946) by Roberto Rossellini
Ladri di biciclette (1948) by Vittorio De Sica
Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
A bout de souffle (1960) by Jean-Luc Godard
La dolce vita (1960) by Federico Fellini
El angel exterminador (1962) by Luis Buñuel
Andrej Rublev (1966) by Andrej Tarkovskij
Blow up (1968) by Michelangelo Antonioni
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick
Nashville (1975) by Robert Altman
Taxi Driver (1976) by Martin Scorsese
Apocalipse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola
Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino
Exotica (1994) by Atom Egoyan
Ta'm e guilass (1997) by Abbas Kiarostami
Todo sobre mi madre (1999) by Pedro Almodovar
Code inconnu - Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) by Michael Haneke
Dogville (2003) by Lars von Trier
Um filme falado (2004) by Manoel de Oliveira
At the exam the students have to bring the list of the chosen movies.
The attendance (also for the past courses) is valid only for a year from the first examination session after the end of the course.
Teaching methods
Traditional teaching with watching movies and use of digital texts
Assessment methods
The oral examination consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the communication skills, learning skills, appropriate knowledge and understanding of the bibliography in the course program and making judgements.
Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide-ranging and organized understanding of the subject matter, who use critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.
On the contrary students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the arguments covered during the course, inappropriate language use, deficiency of familiarity with the literature in the program bibliography will not be given a pass mark.
Specific evaluations parameters will be explained at the beginning of the course.
Teaching tools
DVD and VHS are available at: Videoteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo (via Barberia, 4); Sala Borsa; Biblioteca di Discipline Umanistiche (via Zamboni, 36).
Office hours
See the website of Cristina Bragaglia