20702646 - ELEMENTS OF FILM AND TV DIRECTION

The course aims to provide students with skills related to film grammar through an extended analysis from “classic cinema” to contemporary cinema, in order to investigate aesthetic and stylistic elements and their cultural and political outcomes.

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Programme

The mise en scene is analysed through the recent Italian film. The heart of the course will be on one side the New Italian Cinema of the 2000, on the other hand Vito Zagarrio’s own feature films, which will be a case study to reflect on how to analyse the film.

Core Documentation

V. Zagarrio, Eppure cinema. Appunti di un regista irregolare, Roma, Edizioni Sabinae, 2021.

V. Zagarrio, La nouvelle vague italiana, Venezia, Marsilio, 2021.

A. Mazzoleni, L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico, Roma, Dino Audino, 2002

Type of evaluation

Oral exam

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Programme

The course aims to provide students with skills related to film grammar for the analisys of film style. The notion of "film direction" will be investigated from both a technical and historical perspective, to analyze its evolution starting from the analysis of case studies ranging from classical cinema to contemporary cinema.
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Core Documentation

- Arcangelo Mazzoleni, "L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico", Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2010.
​- V. Zagarrio, Eppure cinema. Appunti di un regista irregolare, Roma, Edizioni Sabinae, 2021.
- V. Zagarrio, La nouvelle vague italiana, Venezia, Marsilio, 2021.
- Lecture notes edited by the teacher (available at the photocopy shop - Via Giulio Rocco, 11)

FILMOGRAFIA

- Luci della città (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
- Ombre rosse (John Ford, 1939)
- Rapporto confidenziale (Orson Welles, 1955)
- La donna della luna (Vito Zagarrio, 1988)
- Bonus Malus (Vito Zagarrio, 1993)
- Caro diario (Nanni Moretti, 1993)
- Lamerica (Gianni Amelio, 1994)
- Un'ora sola ti vorrei (Alina Marazzi, 2002)
- Tre giorni d'anarchia (Vito Zagarrio, 2004)
- Le conseguenze dell'amore (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004)
- Il divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2008)
- Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008)
- Terramatta (Costanza Quatriglio, 2012)
- Reality (Matteo Garrone, 2012)
- 87 ore (Costanza Quatriglio, 2016)
- See You in Texas (Vito Palmieri, 2016) - disponibile su RayPlay
- Fuori era primavera (Gabriele Salvatores, 2020) - disponibile su RaiPlay

Type of delivery of the course

The course is delivered through classroom-taught lessons that provide - for the purpose of a better understanding of the topics addressed by the students - the use of slides and/or the screening of movies and videos.

Type of evaluation

The learning assessment takes place through a written exam. There are no intermediate tests.