30142 - Cinema and Literature (LM)

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Docente: Michele Fadda
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ART/06
  • Language: Italian

Course contents

12 cfu- 60 hours: students of Storia culturale dei media: 12 cfu

Part 1: (30 hours) Intellectualism and high culture in American cinema – This course will deal, among others, with the following thematic blocks: Hollywood cinema and middlebrow culture; intellectualism and antiintellectualism in the American films; Entertainment and American Culture; cinema and modernism; forms of relationship between film and literature; forms of distincion in the consumption of films (art house cinemas); New American Cinema.

Part 2 - (30 hours):The culture of cosmopolitism in American and European Cinema – This course will deal, among others, with the following thematic blocks: national and transnational identity in the movies - cinema and americanism - International style - cinema and modernism - runaway productions - art house cinema - dubbing and subtitles - cinema and globalization

 

6 cfu - 30 hours: students of Cinema e letteratura; Cinema e studi culturali; Storia del cinema; Storia culturale dei media da 6cfu).

The culture of cosmopolitism in American and European Cinema – This course will deal, among others, with the following thematic blocks: national and transnational identity in the movies - cinema and americanism - International style - cinema and modernism - runaway productions - art house cinema - dubbing and subtitles - cinema and globalization

Readings/Bibliography

A selection of essays will be available on the Virtuale platform (accessible through the link "Activities and contents in e-learning" in the teaching sheet on the right). starting from the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures with supporting materials

We recommend students who intend to actively participate in the course to participate (in presence or remotely) in the first lesson where the program and teaching methods will be explained.

Of course, this methodological approach (as the subject itself) requires not only specific knowledge in the strictly cinematic context, but also a substantial knowledge of the culture/s in which the film has been produced.

Students are recommended to attend the course, this being a great advantage, since there are no teaching manuals related to this subject, so its basics will be dealt with and exemplified during the course. N.B. Students are expected to know English so well to be able to read academic essays in such language.

Assessment methods

Students are required to submit a final essay of about 15 sheet (2000 characters each, spaces included) on a topic at their choice and concerning the monograph part contents (to be agreed with the teacher at his Office hours). The essay shall be submitted for correction within 7 days of the date in which students wish to sit the examination.

It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students achieving an organic vision of the course contents, the use of a proper specific language, the originality of the reflection as well as the familiarity with the historiographic tolls for analysing the subject.

It will be assessed as discrete the performance of those students showing mostly mechanical or mnemonic knowledge of the subject, not articulated synthesis and analysis capabilities, a correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a scholastic study of the discipline. It will be assessed as barely sufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, lack of knowledge of the discipline. It will be assessed as insufficient the performance of those students showing learning gaps, inappropriate language, no orientation within the recommended bibliography and inability to analyse the subject.

Teaching tools

The study of the cases will be supported by audio-visual material.

Office hours

See the website of Michele Fadda