L00942 - Movements and Authors of International Cinema

courses

ID:

L00942

Duration (hours):

54

CFU:

SSD:

CINEMA, FOTOGRAFIA E TELEVISIONE

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (15/02/2026 - 25/05/2026)

Course Objectives

Learning outcomes
The course concurs to realize the educational goals of the Degree Program by introducing the students to the main concepts of the audiovisual language, through the exploration of significant practices of the international film production.
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:

the outlines of the New International Cinema;
the common elements of the film movements under investigation (Nouvelle Vague, Free Cinema, US Avantgarde Cinema, New American Cinema, Neue Welle);
their peculiarities, both national and of individual 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 sites of precious opportunities to meet international scholars, experts, directors, actors, and other cinema professionals.
Attending students 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

None

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods

lectures;
discussion of the selected audiovisual materials (feature, experimental and documentary films) 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 methodsAn oral examination in the form of an interview will assess whether thestudent has mastered the course content.Grades run from 18 through 30/30.Excellent (27-30/30) will be awarded to those students who achieve acomprehensive understanding of the course content and are able toarticulate a specific and original vision of their own, that reflects both asolid proficiency in the analytic vocabulary of cinema studies, as well asin the different cinematic movements and movies that were examined.Good(22-26/30) will be awarded to those students showing someknowledge of the course content, but who are unable to fully articulate asynthesis of all the materials, as well as fully develop a sophisticatedanalysis,and use a correct but not always appropriate analyticvocabularyof cinema studies.Satisfactory (18-21/30) will be awarded to those students showing a basicknowledge of the course content and a supeficial understanding of thedifferentcinematic movements and movies studied, as well as aninaccurateanalytic vocabulary of cinema studies.Insufficient(under18/30)willbeawardedtothosestudentsdemonstrating an insufficient grasp of the course content, an inaccurateanalytic vocabulary of cinema studies, a lack of profiency regarding thedifferent cinematic movements and movies examined, and an inability toanalyse them.

Texts

Reference Texts
FILMS:

R. Rossellini: Germania anno zero, Paisà
V. De Sica: Ladri di biciclette
L. Visconti: La terra trema
F. Truffaut: Les Mistons, I quattrocento colpi
J.-L. Godard: Fino all’ultimo respiro
L. Anderson: O’ Dreamland, Everyday Except Christmas
T. Richardson e K. Reisz: Momma don’t Allow
K. Reisz: We Are the Lambeth Boys, Sabato sera, domenica mattina
M. Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence, The Very Eye of Night
J. Cassavetes: Ombre
R. Frank e A. Leslie: Pull My Daisy
J. Mekas: Guns of the Trees
W. Wenders: Alice nelle città, Falso movimento, Nel corso del tempo
H. Sanders-Brahms: Germania, pallida madre

BOOKS:

P. Bertetto (a cura di): Introduzione alla storia del cinema. Autori, film, correnti, UTET, Torino 2012
A. Trivelli: L’altra metà dello sguardo, Bulzoni, Roma 1998
Leonardo Gandini: Cinema e regia, Carocci editore, Roma 2006

Note: Not attending students and students who have not regularly attended the lessons are invited to read: “Further Information”.

ContentsRenewaland experimentation in international cinema: from themasterships of Italian Neorealism through the western “New Waves”.Through the analysis of exemplary movies, framed in the age of theirrealization, the salient formal and thematic features of Nouvelle Vague(France),Free Cinema (UK), US Avantgarde Cinema, New AmericanCinema(USA), Neue Welle (Germany) will be studied within theinternationalcontext of the foremost film criticism and theory.

Course Language

Italian

More information

Further informationAttendance 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 TOCONTACT 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 REGULARLYATTENDED THE LESSONS ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THE PROFESSORWELL IN ADVANCE OF THE EXAMINATION DATE. THEY SHALL INTEGRATETHE COURSE FILMS AND TEXTS OF THE SYLLABUS WITH THE FOLLOWINGADDITIONAL BOOK: David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Storia del cinema.Un’introduzione, Italian release edited by David Bruni and Elena Mosconi,McGraw Hill, Milano 2010; Marco Bertozzi, Documentario come arte.Riuso,performance,autobiografianell’esperienzadelcinemacontemporaneo,Marsilio,Venezia2018.Not-attending students are advised to contact the professor well inadvance of the examination date.Attending students and who successfully passed the course examinationare eligible for accreditation of Venice and Pesaro film festivals.Furthermore,the professor will give information about artistic andcultural events occuring in our city/region/nation of particular relevanceto the course objectives. This information will be readly disseminated viawhatsapp as well as the social media of the Dept..For any question students are invited to meet with the professor duringher office hours.