96451 - Laboratory in Preparation of the Thesis (1) (G.B)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the laboratory the student: knows the main research methodologies in the respective field of study; acquires an in-depth knowledge of the structure and organization of an argumentative text; is able to collect and organize primary and secondary sources, and to write a bibliography; knows how to apply appropriate editorial criteria in the finalization of the text.

Course contents

The workshop is divided into two parts:

 

PART 1 - Silent cinema: filmic representation. Sources, documents, materials, tools

PART 2 - How to write a thesis about Italian silent cinema: topic choice, research and indexing, writing (with citations and notes), text editing and formatting

Readings/Bibliography

The reading of the following book is mandatory: Umberto Eco, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2019.

 

Other texts will be mentioned during the workshop.

 

Additional texts, whose reading is NOT mandatory, are the following:

 

Georges Sadoul, “Materiali, metodi e problemi della storia del cinema”, in Camillo Bassotto (edited by), La storiografia cinematografica. Atti della tavola rotonda alla XXV Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica (Venezia, agosto-settembre 1964), Venezia, Marsilio, 1966, pp. 19-82.

 

Irène Bessière, Jean A. Gili (edited by), Histoire du cinéma. Problématique des sources. Atti del convegno (Paris, novembre 2002), Paris, INHA, 2002.

 

Paolo Caneppele, Denis Lotti, La documentazione cinematografica ovvero Le fonti storico-cinematografiche. Manuale per studiosi, studenti, appassionati, Bologna, Persiani, 2014.

 

Giovanna Fossati, Dai grani ai pixel. Il restauro del film nella transizione dall’analogico al digitale, Bologna, Persiani, 2021.

 

Aldo Bernardini, “La filmografia”, in Gian Piero Brunetta (edited by), Storia del cinema mondiale. Volume XI. Parte I, Torino, Einaudi, 2001, pp. 245-261.

 

Aldo Bernardini, Archivio del cinema italiano. Volume I: il cinema muto (1905-1931), Roma, Edizioni ANICA, 1991.

 

Aldo Bernardini, Vittorio Martinelli, Il cinema muto italiano (1905-1931), Roma - Torino, CSC - Nuova ERI, 1991-1996 (a series of 21 volumes).

 

Aldo Bernardini, Cinema italiano delle origini. Gli ambulanti, Gemona (Udine), La Cineteca del Friuli, 2001.

 

Michael Guarneri, “L’attrazione della corsa fantasma. Phantom ride dalla novità al 1904”, in Immagine. Note di Storia del Cinema, n. 12, 2015, pp. 99-123.

 

Elena Nepoti, Storia del cinema muto a Bologna. Dalle origini agli anni Venti, Bologna, Persiani, 2018.

 

Paolo Caneppele, Sguardi privati. Teoria e prassi del cinema amatoriale, Milano, Meltemi, 2022.

Teaching methods

This is a 30-hour workshop.

Attendance is mandatory for at least 3/4 of the workshop sessions.

In order to sign up for the workshop, please write an email to academic tutor Michael Guarneri (michael.guarneri2@unibo.it) stating your SURNAME, NAME, STUDENT NUMBER and E-MAIL ADDRESS.

Active participation to the workshop sessions is highly recommended. Student attendance will be verified by means of online questionnaires or signatures in the workshop register. The students who can't attend the workshop sessions must contact professor Michele Canosa in order to devise a personalised learning program and exam.

 

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, get in touch as soon as possible with the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) and with the lecturer in order to seek together the most effective strategies for following the lessons and/or preparing for the exam.

Assessment methods

In order to pass the exam, the student must obtain a "qualified" ("idoneo") mark.

It is highly recommended that the students attend at least 3/4 of the workshop sessions.

The students who can't attend the workshop sessions must contact professor Michele Canosa in order to devise a personalised learning program and exam.

The exam consists in the submission of a written essay of thirty pages maximum (“tesina”).

The topic of the written essay should be discussed in advance with professor Michele Canosa or with academic tutor Michael Guarneri. The written essay must be submitted via e-mail at least ten days before the exam session.

The written essay must clearly state: topic, methodology, research procedures and sources. Great care must be devoted to making citations and footnote/endnote references, and to compiling the bibliography, according to the formatting rules listed in the University's thesis guidelines document ("Norme redazionali per prova finale DAMS").

 

Students with SLD or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the relevant University office (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en) well in advance: the office will propose some adjustments, which must in any case be submitted 15 days in advance to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of these adjustments in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Practical exercises (e.g., compiling bibliographies and filmographies).

Office hours

See the website of Michele Canosa