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
teacher profile teaching materials
The program will be articulated around two main 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 to the current "postmedia" condition.
2) Ruggero Eugeni, La condizione postmediale, La Scuola, Brescia 2015
3) An anthology of essays edited by the course teacher
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 the historically relevant perspective and more recent topics and methodologies.The program will be articulated around two main 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 to the current "postmedia" condition.
Core Documentation
1) Francesco Casetti, L'occhio del Novecento. Cinema, esperienza, modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2005 (eng. ed. Eye of the Century. Film, Experience, Modernity, Columbia University Press, New York 20082) Ruggero Eugeni, La condizione postmediale, La Scuola, Brescia 2015
3) An anthology of essays edited by the course teacher
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
The program will be articulated around two main 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 to the current "postmedia" condition.
2) Ruggero Eugeni, La condizione postmediale, La Scuola, Brescia 2015
3) An anthology of essays edited by the course teacher
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 the historically relevant perspective and more recent topics and methodologies.The program will be articulated around two main 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 to the current "postmedia" condition.
Core Documentation
1) Francesco Casetti, L'occhio del Novecento. Cinema, esperienza, modernità, Bompiani, Milano 2005 (eng. ed. Eye of the Century. Film, Experience, Modernity, Columbia University Press, New York 20082) Ruggero Eugeni, La condizione postmediale, La Scuola, Brescia 2015
3) An anthology of essays edited by the course teacher
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.