Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course the student will have to know the fundamentals of the history of cinema.
Knowledge and capacity for applied understanding: the student will be able to recognize and analyze how, in Western visual culture, the social and artistic uses of this medium take shape, develop and change; he/she/they will be able to understand how social and technological-material issues have underpinned the development of the moving images equipment throughout their history; he/she/they will know how cinema radically changed, in the space of a single century, the culture and the space-time perception of the whole humanity, shaping new shared collective imaginaries.
Autonomy of judgment: the student will develop the ability to collect and interpret data useful for determining independent judgments in the context of audiovisual studies.
Communication skills: the student will be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors. Ability to learn: the student will be able to develop learning skills necessary to autonomously complete further studies in the media and audiovisual fields.
Prerequisites
The course is delivered in Italian, as well as the procedures for verifying learning. The understanding of the Italian language is therefore necessary.
Course unit content
The lessons will be dedicated to the birth and to the development of the moving images and to the social and cultural implications due to the diffusion of cinema in a global scale.
Full programme
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Bibliography
The slides and the digital materials used to support the lessons will be uploaded on a weekly basis on the Elly platform. To download them, you need to register for the online course. The slides and the digital materials are considered an integral part of the teaching material for all students: attending, non-attending and foreign students. Non-attending students are reminded to check the teaching material available, and the information provided by the teacher through the Elly platform.
Attending students’ program:
- Lecture slides and other digital materials accessible on the Elly platform.
- List of 20 films to watch (uploaded on the Elly platform)
- David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, “Storia del cinema. Un’introduzione”, McGraw-Hill Education 2018
Non-attending students’ program:
- Lecture slides and other digital materials accessible on the Elly platform.
- List of 30 films to watch (uploaded on the Elly platform)
- David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith, "Storia del cinema. Un'introduzione", McGraw-Hill Education 2018
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons: during the lessons the topics of the course will be discussed in depth with the vision of audiovisuals and digital sources. The lessons will be structured with the aim of stimulating the students to discuss and debate on the topics dealt with in the classroom.
Assessment methods and criteria
The exam will consist in a written test with closed answer aimed at verifying the comprehension and learning ability of the scheduled texts and the audiovisual material proposed in class (the teacher will indicate the digital links of the audiovisual material available online on the Elly platform by the end of the course). The evaluation criteria will be linked to the degree of satisfaction with respect to the parameters below.
An assessment of insufficiency is determined by the lack of knowledge of the minimum contents of the course. A sufficient evaluation (18-23 / 30) is determined by an acceptable level of preparation by the student of the above-mentioned evaluation indicators; the average scores (24-27 / 30) are awarded to the student who proves to have a level more than sufficient (24-25/30) or good (26-27/30) of the above evaluation indicators, the highest scores (from 28/30 to 30/30 cum laude) are awarded based on the demonstration of a level from excellent to excellent.
Other information
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