20703019 - HISTORICAL AND FILM NARRATION - L.M

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Mutuazione: 20703019 NARRAZIONE STORICA E NARRAZIONE CINEMATOGRAFICA - LM in Storia e società LM-84 MERLUZZI MANFREDI

Programme

The course aims to analyze the opportunities to use movies as historical sources and historical "agent", because it not only represents a vision but also contributes to build new historical views.
It could be very useful to study social history and belongs and self representations, and this course will be focused on the cinematographic and television representation of a Renaissance court such as that of England of the Tudor age, from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I.
To this end, the following films and television products will be analyzed:

The Private Life of Henry VIII, A. Korda, 1933
A Man for All Seasons, F. Zinnemann, 1966
Anne of the Thousand Days, C. Jarrott, 1969
Mary, Queen of Scots, C. Jarrott, 1971
Henry VIII and His Six Wives, W. Hussein, 1972
Elizabeth, S. Kapur, 1998
Elizabeth: the Golden Age, S. Kapur, 2007
The Tudors, 2007-2010
The other Boleyn girl, J. Chadwick, 2008
Anonymous, R. Emmerich, 2011
The White Queen, 2013



Core Documentation

Readings:
- Cortini L. (a cura di), Le fonti audiovisive per la storia e la didattica, Effigi, Arcidosso, 2014, pp. 39-60; 97-118
- Brigden S., Alle origini dell'Inghilterra moderna. L'età dei Tudor, 1485-1603, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2003
- S. Parrill, W. B. Robison, The Tudors on film and television, McFarland, 2013

In addition another book in the following list:
a) Iaccio P., Cinema e storia. Percorsi, immagini, testimonianze, Liguori, Napoli 2000
b) Miro Gori G. (a cura di), La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato e interpretazione del presente, Bulzoni, Roma, 1994
c) Ortoleva P., Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Loescher, Torino, 1991
d) Sorlin P., I figli di Nadar, Einaudi, Torino, 2000
e) Munslow A., Narrative and History, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007

Students not attending should contact the teacher before the final exam. They have to prepare an analysis for each movie (following an established format) and prepare a paper on two movies.