ID:
L0875
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
CINEMA, FOTOGRAFIA E TELEVISIONE
Located in:
PESCARA
Url:
MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 15/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
Learning outcomes
The course concurs to realize the educational goals of the Degree Program by introducing the students to relevant issues and concepts of contemporary culture and arts, through the exploration of the complex and sophisticated film pratice of Jane Campion, world renowned New Zealand woman director, screenwriter and producer.
Students progress will be evaluated according to their active participation in the classroom and group discussions as well as their familiarity with the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies. The course aims to provide students with an adequate knowledge on: 1) an exemplary practice of contemporary cinema; 2) Jane Campion’s film production; 3) the multiple primary sources of her creativity; 4) the relationship between Jane Campion’s film work and other expressive languages (literature, fine art, theatre, music, photography, television); 5) the experential and self-reflexive quality of her movies.
The skills acquired in this class can be used to partecipate in the activities of the prestigious International Film Festivals of Venice and Pesaro, showcases of the most advanced current audiovisual production, as well as the site of precious opportunities to meet international scholars, experts, directors, actors, and other cinema professionals. Attending students and who have successfully passed the course examination are eligible to be accreditated for the above mentioned film festivals. The accreditation badge is valid for all screenings and related activities.
The course concurs to realize the educational goals of the Degree Program by introducing the students to relevant issues and concepts of contemporary culture and arts, through the exploration of the complex and sophisticated film pratice of Jane Campion, world renowned New Zealand woman director, screenwriter and producer.
Students progress will be evaluated according to their active participation in the classroom and group discussions as well as their familiarity with the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies. The course aims to provide students with an adequate knowledge on: 1) an exemplary practice of contemporary cinema; 2) Jane Campion’s film production; 3) the multiple primary sources of her creativity; 4) the relationship between Jane Campion’s film work and other expressive languages (literature, fine art, theatre, music, photography, television); 5) the experential and self-reflexive quality of her movies.
The skills acquired in this class can be used to partecipate in the activities of the prestigious International Film Festivals of Venice and Pesaro, showcases of the most advanced current audiovisual production, as well as the site of precious opportunities to meet international scholars, experts, directors, actors, and other cinema professionals. Attending students and who have successfully passed the course examination are eligible to be accreditated for the above mentioned film festivals. The accreditation badge is valid for all screenings and related activities.
Course Prerequisites
Prerequisites
None
None
Teaching Methods
Teaching methods
1) lectures; 2) discussion of the selected audiovisual materials (feature and documentary films, videoworks and tv-series) shown in class. Course readings and discussions of the screened movies will develop the students’ skills in audiovisual analysis and research, as well as their facility with the pertinent terminology of cinema studies, and the study of audiovisual texts. The screenings are in the original language with Italian subtitles.
Assessment Methods
Assessment methods
An oral examination in the form of an interview will assess whether the student has mastered the course content.
Grades run from 18 through 30/30.
Excellent (27-30/30) will be awarded to those students who achieve a comprehensive understanding of the course content and are able to articulate a specific and original vision of their own, that reflects both a solid proficiency in the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies, as well as in the movies under investigation and in their interrelationship with other expressive languages.
Good (22-26/30) will be awarded to those students showing some knowledge of the course content, but who are unable to fully articulate a synthesis of all the materials under investigation, as well as fully develop a sophisticated analysis, and use a correct but not always appropriate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies.
Satisfactory (18-21/30) will be awarded to those students showing a basic knowledge of the course content, and a supeficial understanding of all the materials under investigation, as well as an inaccurate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies.
Insufficient (under 18/30) will be awarded to those students demonstrating an insufficient grasp of the course content, an inaccurate analytic vocabulary of cinema studies, a lack of profiency regarding the movies examined, and an inability to analyse them.
Texts
Reference films & books
FILMS:
Tissues, Peel - An Exercise in Discipline, Passionless Moments, A Girl’s Own Story, The Water Diary, The Lady Bug, After Hours, Two Friends (Le due amiche), Sweetie, An Angel at My Table (Un angelo alla mia tavola), The Piano (Lezioni di piano), The Portrait of a Lady (Ritratto di signora), Holy Smoke (Holy Smoke - Fuoco sacro), Bright Star, In the Cut, Top of the Lake, The Power of the Dog
BOOKS:
Anita Trivelli, Il cinema di Jane Campion dai cortometraggi a Top of the Lake, Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2017
André Bazin, Che cos'è il cinema? (edited by Adriano Aprà), Garzanti, Milano 1999
FILMS:
Tissues, Peel - An Exercise in Discipline, Passionless Moments, A Girl’s Own Story, The Water Diary, The Lady Bug, After Hours, Two Friends (Le due amiche), Sweetie, An Angel at My Table (Un angelo alla mia tavola), The Piano (Lezioni di piano), The Portrait of a Lady (Ritratto di signora), Holy Smoke (Holy Smoke - Fuoco sacro), Bright Star, In the Cut, Top of the Lake, The Power of the Dog
BOOKS:
Anita Trivelli, Il cinema di Jane Campion dai cortometraggi a Top of the Lake, Edizioni Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, Roma 2017
André Bazin, Che cos'è il cinema? (edited by Adriano Aprà), Garzanti, Milano 1999
Contents
Contents
Nomadism, experiential and cross-media practices in contemporary cinema. These issues will be explored by analyzing the filmwork of the New Zealand director, screenwriter and producer Jane Campion, «not reconciled» woman auteur and with an antropological view.
Nomadism, experiential and cross-media practices in contemporary cinema. These issues will be explored by analyzing the filmwork of the New Zealand director, screenwriter and producer Jane Campion, «not reconciled» woman auteur and with an antropological view.
Course Language
Teaching language Italian
More information
Further information
Attendance at classroom lessons is heartily recommended, given the highly experiential nature of the lessons. For the exam it is necessary to watch all the films indicated in the filmography, in addition to the abovementioned bibliography.
STUDENTS OF OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMS ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THE PROFESSOR BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE, AND IN ANY CASE WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE EXAMINATION DATE.
NOT ATTENDING-STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT REGULARLY ATTENDED THE LESSONS ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THE PROFESSOR WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE EXAMINATION DATE. THEY SHALL INTEGRATE THE COURSE FILMS AND TEXTS OF THE SYLLABUS WITH THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL BOOKS: Leonardo Gandini, Cinema e regia, Carocci editore, Roma 2006; Giulia Carluccio, Luca Malavasi, Federica Villa, Il cinema. Percorsi storici e questioni teoricheIl cinema. Percorsi storici e questioni teoriche, Carocci Editore, Roma 2015.
Attending students and who successfully passed the course examination are eligible for accreditation of Venice and Pesaro film festivals.
Furthermore, the professor will give information about artistic and cultural events occuring in our city/region/nation of particular relevance to the course objectives.
For any question students are invited to meet with the professor during her office hours.
Degrees
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