HISTORY OF CINEMA II

The course is included in the historical-artist course of the Tars curriculum and it is conceived as a transversal history of the main international cinematographies: with the support of excerpts from different movies, some of the main filmmakers’ profiles will be considered in details, so as to cross the stilistic, narrative and technological progress in the history of cinema.

Aim of the course is to fournish an overview of the most important topics, movements and experiences of cinema history, focusing on the most representative filmmakers. In many cases they are directors who have contributed to reinforce the filmic grammar, which have been a stylistic reference for the following generations, or that have given birth to innovative genres and narratives. Thus mutual influences and interaction dynamics will flow on a national and international basis, in order to have a total prospect of world cinema history.

No particular prerequisite is requested.

It is a history of cinema and of international animation through profiles of different filmmakers. The course follows the previous History of Cinema 1 in which the historical, sociological and economic bases in which the individual filmographies analyzed here are evaluated. Through the vision of video clips taken from the films of the selected directors and with an approach that is at the same time technical, historical and technological, the different figures will be analyzed in terms of "authorship", at the same time delineating the contribution they have made to contemporary arts.

Mark Cousin, La storia del cinema Utet, Milano, 2018
Davide Giurlando (ed. by), Fantasmagoria, Venezia, Marsilio, 2017
Additional material will be available in Moodle

Written exam. During the course the students will be asked to interact with the contents of the lessons with open discussions. The partial exam scheduled in May for those who made the first part in March will then consist of a one-hour written test in which four open-ended questions will be asked. For the other sessions, the History of Cinema 1 and 2 exams will have to be made together, for a total of eight open-ended questions in two hours.

The lessons will take place with a frontal methodology, but a seminar type interaction is strongly encouraged.

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