73052 - Cinema and Cultural Industry

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Roy Menarini
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ART/06
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Fashion Cultures and Practices (cod. 9064)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to know of the economic and cultural system of cinema. Ha can analyze and evaluate elements and codes of film culture in its contexts. He understands the most important historical phases of cinematographic art and recognizes the essential periods and the most important styles for future professional skills.

Course contents

Unit 1: Film History through the movies

Mandatory films:

    • Metropolis (1927)
    •  City Lights (1931)
    • Citizen Kane (1941)
    • Bycicle Thieves (1948)
    • The Rear Window (1954)
    • Tokyo Story (1957)
    • Les 400 coups (1959)
    • Breathless (1959)
    • Easy Rider (1969)
    • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
    • Pulp Fiction (1994)
    • In the Mood for Love (2000)  

    Unità 2: Film language

    Unità 3: The Cinema of Federico Fellini.

    Mandatory films:

    • Lo sceicco bianco
    • La dolce vita
    • Otto e mezzo
    • Roma
    • Amarcord

Readings/Bibliography

Online materials available at virtuale.unibo.it

For non attending studentes: A. COSTA, Saper vedere il cinema, Milano, Bompiani, 2011.

Non-mandatory: ROY MENARINI, La grande illusione, Udine, Mimesis 2021

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching and film screenings (with analysis)

Assessment methods

Text at the computer room with 21 questions with triple answer to be finshed in 15 minutes. 

Every question is valid for 1 point out of 31 (30 cum laude), except questions valid for 2 points. 

Teaching tools

Lessons with multimedia tools

Office hours

See the website of Roy Menarini