30140 - History of Cinema (LM)

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Cristina Bragaglia
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: L-ART/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Culture and Language for Foreigners (cod. 0983)

Learning outcomes

The student has an in-depth knowledge about the relationships between literary and cinematographic texts. He's able to use instruments and critical methodologies to analize the connections between the two languages.

Course contents

Proust and the cinema: time conception and story innovation

Readings/Bibliography

Texts for the students of "Cinema e letteratura" (LM):

Giorgio Tinazzi,  La scrittura e lo sguardo. Cinema e letteratura, Venezia, Marsilio, 2010.

Vincenzo Buccheri, Lo stile cinematografico, Roma, Carocci, 2010.

Anna Masecchia, Al cinema con Proust, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.

Added text for those students (LM and LS) who don't attend the course:

Paolo Brandi, Parole in movimento. L'influenza del cinema sulla letteratura, Fiesole, Cadmo, 2006.

The students who don't attend the course have to watch 5 movies (at least 2 related to Proust) among those deeply analysed in the texts. 

 

Texts for the students of "Storia del cinema" (LM):

Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Storia del cinema, Venezia, Marsilio, 2005.

Anna Masecchia, Al cinema con Proust, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008.

Added text for those students (LM) who don't attend the course:

Paolo Brandi, Parole in movimento. L'influenza del cinema sulla letteratura, Fiesole, Cadmo, 2006.

The students who don't attend the course have to watch 5 movies (at least 2 related to Proust) from the following list:

Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Bronenosec Potëmkin (1925) by Sergej M. Ejzenštejn

Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang

Modern Times (1936) by Charlie Chaplin

Bringing Up Baby (1938) by Howard Hawks

Le quai des brumes (1938) by Marcel Carné

Gone With the Wind (1939) by Victor Fleming

Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles

Paisà (1946) by Roberto Rossellini

Ladri di biciclette (1948) by Vittorio De Sica

Rear Window (1954) by Alfred  Hitchcock

A bout de souffle (1960) by Jean-Luc Godard

La dolce vita (1960) by Federico Fellini

El angel exterminador (1962) by Luis Buñuel

Andrej Rublev (1966) by Andrej Tarkovskij

Blow up (1968) by Michelangelo Antonioni

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick

Nashville (1975) by Robert Altman

Taxi Driver (1976) by Martin Scorsese

Apocalipse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola

Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino

Exotica (1994) by Atom Egoyan

Ta'm e guilass (1997) by Abbas Kiarostami

Todo sobre mi madre (1999) by Pedro Almodovar

Code inconnu - Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) by Michael Haneke

Dogville (2003) by Lars von Trier

Um filme falado (2004) by Manoel de Oliveira

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

DVD and VHS are available at: Videoteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo (via Barberia, 4); Biblioteca di Discipline Umanistiche (via Zamboni, 36); Sala Borsa.

At the exam the students have to bring the list of the examined movies.

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Bragaglia