The course focuses on the representation of landscape in Italian cinema and the function it assumes from both narrative and socio-cultural perspectives. The course aims to provide methodological tools to develop critical, historical and theoretical reflection with respect to this iconographical system.
teacher profile teaching materials
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher
Programme
In the first place, the course offers a theoretical and historical reflection on the role gained by the landscape in cinema, investigating its essential characteristics, its evolution over time and its gradual redefinition or resemantization. Then the class analyses cinema representations of landscape, identifying the most relevant forms and meanings it takes on within movies. Finally, the course proposes a taxonomy of landscape in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.Core Documentation
– Sandro Bernardi, Il paesaggio nel cinema italiano, Venezia, Marsilio, 2002.– Selection of essays edited by the teacher
Reference Bibliography
– S. Parigi, G. Ravesi (a cura di), Imago 9 – Il paesaggio nel cinema contemporaneo, Roma, Bulzoni, 2014. – M. Lefebvre (edited by), Landscape and film, New York-London, Routledge, 2006.Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, integrated with screenings of moviesAttendance
Optional, but attendance is strongly recommendedType of evaluation
Written final exam