Film History and Criticism

The aim of the course is to introduce the history of cinema from early cinema to contemporary cinema. The main sections of the history of cinema will be addressed: 1) Early cinema; 2) The establishing of the Institutional Representation Mode ; 3) The golden age of Italian silent cinema; 4) The avant-gardes, German expressionism, French impressionism, and the Soviet school; 5) The advent of sound and classic American cinema; 6) Italian Neorealism; 7) Nouvelle Vague; 8) Author cinema; 9) The New Hollywood.
Therefore a thematic and methodological study will be proposed in line with the basic training objectives of the CdS

The aim of the course is to bring students to acquire the technical-sectorial lexicon of the discipline. Students will also learn the main points of the history of cinema and some of the most relevant historiographical problems of the contemporary debate. At the end of the course the student will be able to view a film with a critical attitude, to place it historically on the basis of the main stylistic-formal aspects, and connect it to its historical-cultural context.