27869 - Iconography of Cinema (1) (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Leonardo Gandini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ART/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production (cod. 0966)

Learning outcomes

Students shall be able to put the iconic elements of the film in relation with its narrative structure. 

Course contents

Boxe and fighters in american cinema

Readings/Bibliography

Leger Grindon, Knockout: the Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2011.

Joyce Carol Oates, Sulla boxe, Edizioni e/o, Roma 1988

Alessandro Cappabianca, Boxare con l'ombra. Cinema e pugilato, Le Mani, Recco 2004. In this book, Introduction + chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 10 e 11.

Teaching methods

Lectures. Ten lectures, each one three hours long

Assessment methods

Oral examinations: students will be tested on the subjects of the course. They shall be able to give proper answers and to properly master the italian language. Students who don't have a wide knowledge of the italian Language will not be able to understand the course; therefore, they will not pass the examination

Teaching tools

Significant parts of boxing films will be shown during the classes, as a tool through which the relationship between cinema and boxe will be discussed

Office hours

See the website of Leonardo Gandini