20710384 - AESTHETICS OF CINEMA AND MEDIA

The aim of the class is to give an overview of the more relevant issues of film and media aesthetics. In particular, the class will be focused on both historically relevant perspective and more recent topics and methodologies. Moreover, a major frame will be offered by visual culture studies, in order to understand old and new phenomena in the light of a wider history of images. A particular attention will be devoted to theories of sensory and affective cinematic and medial experience.

Curriculum

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Mutuazione: 20710384 ESTETICA DEL CINEMA E DEI MEDIA in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 CAROCCI ENRICO

Programme

The aim of the class is to give an overview of the more relevant issues of film and media aesthetics. In particular, the class will be focused on both historically relevant perspective and more recent topics and methodologies.
The program will be articulated around twomain stages. In the first one, the main approaches to film and media aesthetics will be taken into account. In the second one, 20th-century film and media aesthetics will be compared with the works of Stanley Kubrick.


Core Documentation

1) Francesco Casetti, L'occhio del Novecento. Cinema, esperienza, modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2005 [Eng. tr. Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity, Columbia University Press, New York 2008]
2) Enrico Carocci (a cura di), Stanely Kubrick, Marsilio, Venezia 2019
3) An anthology of essays, edited by the teacher (paper materials, available at the print shop CLP, Via Giulio Rocco, 9, Rome)

Type of delivery of the course

The course is delivered through classroom-taught lessons with the use of slides and/or the screening of movies and videos.

Attendance

The attendance is optional; however – also considering that the lessons are focused on close analysis – it is highly recommended.

Type of evaluation

The written exam consists of three open-ended questions. No intermediate tests, nor written exemptions.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

The aim of the class is to give an overview of the more relevant issues of film and media aesthetics. In particular, the class will be focused on both historically relevant perspective and more recent topics and methodologies.
The program will be articulated around twomain stages. In the first one, the main approaches to film and media aesthetics will be taken into account. In the second one, 20th-century film and media aesthetics will be compared with the works of Stanley Kubrick.


Core Documentation

1) Francesco Casetti, L'occhio del Novecento. Cinema, esperienza, modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2005 [Eng. tr. Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity, Columbia University Press, New York 2008]
2) Enrico Carocci (a cura di), Stanely Kubrick, Marsilio, Venezia 2019
3) An anthology of essays, edited by the teacher (paper materials, available at the print shop CLP, Via Giulio Rocco, 9, Rome)

Type of delivery of the course

The course is delivered through classroom-taught lessons with the use of slides and/or the screening of movies and videos.

Attendance

The attendance is optional; however – also considering that the lessons are focused on close analysis – it is highly recommended.

Type of evaluation

The written exam consists of three open-ended questions. No intermediate tests, nor written exemptions.