- 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