2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

L-ART/06 (CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

Storia dell'arte medievale, moderna e contemporanea

2°

2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

VILLA FEDERICA (titolare) - 5 ECTS
TOSCHI DEBORAH - 1 ECTS

It would be preferable to have already acquired the basic notions of audiovisual language and film history

The course intends to provide skills and tools to learn the authors, poetics, trends and peculiarities of documentary and experimental cinema. A special focus will be dedicated to Italian cinema, which in recent years has identified the documentary as a privileged space tpromote identity and individuality paths, according to a dynamics that matures, through bodily mediation, within social relationships.
The course aims to allow the student a basic analysis (structure, language), a first approach to the documentary and its proper contextualization in the contemporary landscape.

The course will explore the history, forms and aesthetics of documentary and contemporary experimental cinema. The course includes theoretical reflection and the vision of documentaries that, for creative originality and cultural interest, have marked the recent Italian productive season. In addition, as part of the course, further meetings with the authors, scholars and critics dealing with mapping and defining the multifaceted and elusive reality of the documentary are also provided.

Frontal lessons, vision, analysis and commentary on audiovisual materials on contemporary Italian documentary and experimental cinema.
The course may include educational outings on the territory or participation in exhibitions, with the presence of the teacher.

Attending students:
-Marco Bertozzi, L'idea documentaria. Altri sguardi dal cinema italiano, Lindau 2003.
-Syllabus 2017
- Films, the titles will be conveyed to the lesson
In addition, a text chosen from:
-Giovanni Spagnoletti (a cura di), Il reale allo specchio. Il documentario italiano contemporaneo, Marsilio 2012.
-Ivelise Perniola, L'era postdocumentaria, Mimesis 2014.
-Dario Cecchi, Immagini Mancanti. L’estetica del documentario nell’epoca dell’intermedialità, Pellegrini 2016.
Non-attending students, in addition to Bertozzi's texts, giving and watching movies, will have to prepare two books among the chosen texts.

The exam consists of an oral examination in which will be verified the main theoretical questions related to experimental cinema and contemporary documentary. Knowledge of trends, authors and works of the contemporary Italian documentary will also be tested.
For attending students, it is possible, in addition to the oral exam, to agree a written paper with the teacher.