CINEMA IN ENGLISH

Upon successful completion of this course, students will hopefully be able to critically read novels and films, as well as to write a paper with coherent arguments and an analytic interpretation. They will also be encouraged to draw connections between their own experiences of cinema and film theory. In addition, at the end of this course students should have attained an awareness of the Regency and the Victorian Age’s most relevant cultural and social contexts, of the problems of gender and class, of the propriety laws and finally of the Victorian Age’s legacy to contemporary culture and film.
Students are also encouraged to actively participate in classroom discussions in order to articulate and defend positions, consider different points of view, and evaluate evidence.
This English-taught course is part of the JOINT DEGREE IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES, an international educational programme, which offers motivated students the opportunity to attend some courses at a foreign partner university.

1. Understanding literary and filmic works and their contexts ;
2. Applying knowledge to other texts/films;
3. Deevloping ananlytical skills in analysing film adaptations;
4. Developing communication skills.

Students are required to possess a good degree of proficiency in both written and spoken English.

The course will examine classic films of British cinema from the Post-War period to the early Sixties.

Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca (1940)
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Alexander Mackendrick, The Ladykillers (1955)
Jack Clayton, The Innocents (1961)
Joseph Losey, The Servant (1963)

Introductory and critical essays will be available on Moodle.

1. Participation (10% of the final grade)
3. Written test in which students will be evaluated in their ability to analyze and contextualize the assigned material in a critical and autonomous way (60% of the final grade)
4. Short oral test (30% 15 mins max; 40% for non attending students)
The level of English and communication skills will also be evaluated.

Lezioni frontali e seminariali, proiezioni, discussione in classe

English

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development