73052 - Cinema and Cultural Industry

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 language

Unit 2: Film History through 15 movies

Mandatory films:

• • Le voyage dans la lune (1902)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Rome Open City (1945)
  • Bycicle Thieves (1948)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • The Rear Window (1954)
    
  • Les 400 coups (1959)
  • Breathless (1959)
  • L'avventura (1960)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • Taxi Driver (1975)
    
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Avatar (2009)  

  Unit 3: The Cinema of Federico Fellini.

  Mandatory films:

  • I vitelloni
  • La dolce vita
  • 8 1/2 
  • Amarcord
    
    
  Unit 4: Film Analysis
• Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock

Readings/Bibliography

Unit 1:

Online materials available at virtuale.unibo.it

 

Unità 2

Online materials available at virtuale.unibo.it

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AAVV., 50 passi nella storia del cinema, Cue Press, Bologna 2018) - only he chapters with films in the list.  

 

Unit 3:

Online materials available at virtuale.unibo.it

 

Unità 4

Roy Menarini, Hitchcock: La donna che visse due volte, Carocci, Roma 2023

 

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