- 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
Shakespeare in the history of the cinema
Readings/Bibliography
Giorgio Tinazzi, La scrittura e lo sguardo. Cinema e letteratura, Venezia, Marsilio, 2007.
Giacomo Manzoli, Cinema e letteratura, Roma, Carocci, 2003.
Stefano Socci, Shakespeare fra teatro e cinema, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2009.
Paola Quarenghi, Shakespeare e gli inganni del cinema, Roma, Bulzoni, 2002.
The students of "Cinema e letteratura" (LS) have to study only the books by Giorgio Tinazzi and Stefano Socci.
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 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.
Stefano Socci, Shakespeare fra teatro e cinema, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2009.
Paola Quarenghi, Shakespeare e gli inganni del cinema, Roma, Bulzoni, 2002.
The students of "Storia del cinema" (LS) have to study only the books by Fernaldo Di Giammatteo (following the outline of the program of "Storia e critica del cinema" - Laurea triennale) and Stefano Socci.
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 Shakespeare) from the following list:
Henry V (1944) by Laurence Olivier
Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier
Richard III (1955) by Laurence Olivier
Forbidden Planet (1956) by Fred MacLeod Wilcox
Ran (1985) by Akira Kurosawa
Prospero's Books (1991) by Peter Greenaway
Richard III (1995) by Richard Loncraine
Looking for Richard (1996) by Al Pacino
William Shakespeare' Romeo + Juliet (1996) by Baz Luhrmann
As You Like It (2006) by Kenneth Branagh
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