Teacher
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Catanese Rossella
(syllabus)
Part 1. Language and production Elements of narratology; framing; camera movements; the grammar of editing, between analog and digital; sound; post-production and special effects, from analog to digital.
Part 2. A diachronic journey through the history of cinema Historical and technological transitions in the history of cinema; documentary and non-fiction; modern cinema; video art; transition from analog to digital; contemporary aesthetics and found-footage.
Part 3. Digital landscapes Serial narratives between technological horizons and cultural practices; digital media theory; remix culture practices; AI.
(reference books)
David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill, New York 2018 [1st edition: 1998].
Brian McKernan, Digital Cinema: The Revolution in Cinematography, Post-Production, and Distribution, McGraw-Hill, New York 2005.
Robert Edgar-Hunt, John Marland, Steven Rawle, The Language of Film, AVA Publishing, Lausanne 2010.
The following films, discussed in class, are recommended for viewing: Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, Friedrich W. Murnau, 1922) Battleship Potëmkin (Bronenosets Potëmkin, Sergej M. Ėjzenštejn, 1925) Bringing Up Baby! (Howard Hawks, 1938) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta, Roberto Rossellini, 1945) The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette, Vittorio De Sica, 1948) Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, Francois Truffaut, 1959) Breathless (À bout de souffle, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) Blow up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) Once Upon A Time in the West (C’era una volta il west, Sergio Leone, 1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) The Conformist (Il conformista, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) Body Double (Brian De Palma 1984) Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) Matrix (Larry e Andy Wachowski, 1999) The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001) House of Flying Daggers (Shí miàn mái fú, Zhang Yimou, 2004) The divine (Il divo, Paolo Sorrentino, 2008) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021)
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