42768 - Cinema and Literature

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the students will have learnt how to analyze relationships between languages e texts in literary and filmic areas, to achieve a good analysis skill of relations between the two languages, through the in-depth study of some exemplary texts. The students will be able to include these relationships into a brief and historical excursus about the evolution of the cinematographic language and techniques and poetries of film adaptation from origin up to the present day.

Course contents

Literature and cinema: ten steps into history and evolution of an exchange

Readings/Bibliography

C. Bragaglia-E. Marchese, Alfabeti: il cinema, Bari, Laterza, 1999 (the book is available only in libraries). As other option, the students can study these two texts: Vincent Pinel, Il montaggio (Torino, Lindau, 2004); Anne Marie Guérin, Il racconto cinematografico (Torino, Lindau, 2006).

Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Milestones, Torino, Utet, 1998 (the book is available only in libraries or in electronic format) .

Sara Cortellazzo - Dario Tomasi, Letteratura e cinema, Bari, Laterza, 1998.

Frédéric Sabouraud, L'adattamento cinematografco, Torino, Lindau, 2007 

Every student will be allow to agree with the professor a list of alternative texts.

The students who won't attend the course have to watch at least 8 movies from Milestones by Di Giammatteo (but the text must be studied in its entirety).  For the students of "Cinema e letteratura" the movies will be chosen among those adapted or inspired by literary works:

• The Birth of a Nation
• Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens
• Greed
• La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
• Stagecoach
• La terra trema
• Rashomon
• Viaggio in Italia
• The Birds
• Blow-up
• Blade Runner
• The Dead
• Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà (Raise the Red Lantern)

The students of Cinema History and Criticism, instead of the texts of  Cortellazzo- Tomasi Letteratura e cinema e Frédéric Sabouraud, L'adattamento cinematografico,have to study

Paolo Bertetto (ed. by), Introduzione alla storia del cinema, Torino, Utet, 2012

or, as an alternative, René Prédal, Cinema, cent'anni di storia, Baldini e Castoldi, 2010

 

 

Moreover the students of Cinema History and Criticism can choose the movies to watch among all the thirty films of Milestones.

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

The attendance (also for the past courses) is valid only for a year from the first examination session after the end of the course.

 

 

Teaching methods

Traditional teaching with watching movies and the use of digital texts partly available on line at the end of course.

Assessment methods

The oral examination consists in an oral interview which has the aim of evaluating the  communication skills, learning skills, appropriate knowledge and understanding of the bibliography in the course program and making judgements.

Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide-ranging and organized understanding of the subject matter, who use critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.

On the contrary students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the arguments covered during the course, inappropriate language use, deficiency of familiarity with the literature in the program bibliography will not be given a pass mark.

Specific evaluations parameters will be explained at the beginning of the course.

 

Teaching tools

DVD and VHS are available at: Videoteca del Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo (via Barberia, 4);  Sala Borsa; Biblioteca di Discipline Umanistiche (via Zamboni, 36). Possible electronic sources will be stated during the classes.

At the exam the students have to bring the list of the chosen movies

 

Office hours

See the website of Cristina Bragaglia